Businesses are used to having to deal with a wide range of risks and uncertainty, but the COVID-19 pandemic wrought disruption on an unprecedented level. Lockdowns across the globe shook the foundations of our world economy.

In our Global Risk Landscape 2021 report, The Art of the Unknown, BDO set out to discover how senior business leaders coped with the prolonged uncertainty of 2020, and the main obstacles they overcame to be able to continue their operations.

We surveyed 500 C-suite business leaders globally across a wide range of industry sectors to find out how they adapted their business models and reinvented products and services – or if they suffered from “disaster paralysis”.

Now in its sixth year, BDO’s Global Risk Landscape Report surveys more than 500 C-suite leaders across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas who offer their insight and opinions of risk. These annual reports have become an important source of information on how business leaders and senior risk specialists perceive and manage the risks their businesses face.

This content was originally published by BDO United Kingdom. 

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Our Global Risk Podcast series

We interviewed our risk advisors to delve further into the data from the report and their region. They discussed many issues such as how the past year effected risk within their region, business outcomes and what future risks businesses can expect.

Episode 1: Findings of this year’s report – ‘The art of the unknown & risk around the globe’ Nigel Burbidge, Partner and Global Chair of Risk & Advisory Services joins ex BBC journalist Jonty Bloom to discuss this year’s report, including the three top lessons he has learnt from the past year and the future global outlook of risk.


Episodes 2 – 5 – The view from the regions

We interviewed BDO partners from across the globe to discuss how the past year affected businesses within their region and what they need to look out for in the next 12 months.

Episode 2: The view from the Middle East and Africa South African Partner, Richard Walker joins Jonty to discuss the MEA region. 15 minutes long.


Episode 3: The view from the Americas Vicky Gregorcyk, Partner from BDO USA, discusses the findings from the Americas. 14 minutes long.


Episode 4: The view from Europe Emanuel Van Zandvoort from our Netherlands office joins us to discuss the view from Europe and how businesses have handled the last 12 months. 13 minutes long.


Episode 5: The view from APAC Australian Partner, Marita Corbett discusses risk within the APAC region.


Episode 6: What next? Discussing the future of risk – ‘How will long-term risk management principles change after COVID-19’ Nigel Burbidge finalises the series and discusses how this year’s findings show how conversations about risk need to be discussed at C-suite level. 12 minutes long.

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