The Global Risk Forum GRF Davos will address the issues described in its goals through three focal activities that complement each other.

The structure of GRF Davos is made up of three pillars:

• Risk Academy
• IDRC Conferences and Workshops
  
• Platform for Networks

GRF Davos Board

• Dr. Walter J. Ammann, Davos, Switzerland (President)
  
• Dr. Marco Ferrari, Thun, Switzerland
  
• Hans Peter Michel, Mayor of Davos, Davos, Switzerland
  
• Heinz Wälti, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
   

Scientific and Technical Advisory Board

• Margareta Wahlström, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, UN-ISDR, Geneva, Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Tehran, I.R. of Iran
  
• Prof. Dr. Debarati Guha-Sapir, Director CRED, University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
  
• Prof. Dr. Matthias Haller, Professor em. University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  
• Terry Jeggle, Senior Policy Advisor, UN-ISDR, Geneva, Switzerland
  
• Dr. Thomas Loster, Director, Munich Re Foundation, Munich, Germany
  
• Hon. Maria Mutagamba, Minister for Water and Environment, Kampala, Uganda
  
• Prof. Dr. Daniel Don Nanjira, Former Ambassador of Kenya to the UN, Professor, Columbia University, New York, USA
  
• Dr. Satoru Nishikawa, Director for Disaster Preparedness, Public Relations and International Cooperation, Cabinet Office, The Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
  
• Prof. Dr. Norio Okada, Professor and Director, Disaster Prevention Research Institute DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan
  
• Dr. Bruno Porro, retired CRO SwissRe, Wädenswil, Switzerland
  
• Prof. Dr. Ortwin Renn, Professor and Director DIALOGIK, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  
• Badaoui Rouhban, Director Section for Disaster Reduction, Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , Paris, France
  
• Johan Schaar, Director Commission on Climate Change and Development, Stockholm, Sweden
  
• Prof. Dr. Louis Schlapbach, General Director EMPA Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
  
• Prof. Dr. Haresh C. Shaw, Obayashi Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University, Founder and Senior Advisor Risk Management Solutions, Inc., Stanford, USA
  
• Prof. Dr. Peijun Shu, Professor and Vice-President Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  
• Dr. Franz Stössel, Special Advisor DRR, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Berne, Switzerland
  
• Dr. Anisya Thomas, Co-Founder Fritz Institute, San Francisco, USA
  
• Prof. Dr. Shaoyu Wang, Professor and Director Institute for Risk Management, School of Architecture, HIT Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China