Is this a bad time to meet?

London

OVER 2,500 leaders from business, government, international organisations, civil society, academia, media and the arts are gathering in Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Jan 20-23. This year's WEF comes at a time of intensified concern about the state of the world economy, yet what is less appreciated are growing fears about rising political risk too.

Indeed, a quarter of a century after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a recent research report from Citi asserts that geopolitical risks are at a 25-year high in the most fluid global political environment in decades. This conclusion is echoed by…