2024 Agenda Sessions

GCs are a quarterback to geo-political risk

The stark reality of ongoing geopolitical risk in Africa has become crystal clear across the last 24 months with rolling coups impacting the Sahel region. Our panel considers the role of in-house legal leadership in both strategic and preventive risk management and consider whether the legal function should indeed be the first phone-call placed by a CEO in the face of an imminent ‘on the ground’ risk.