Geopolitical risk may have been on the horizon for many years but as the world changes more rapidly than ever before, boards need to be increasingly alive to the risks that poses as explained by Ziad Haider, global director of geopolitical risk in McKinsey’s Singapore office, Jon Huntsman Jr, former US ambassador to China, Russia, and Singapore and former governor of Utah, who currently serves on several boards of directors and as a senior adviser and chair of McKinsey’s Geopolitics Advisory Council, and Chris Leech, a senior partner in McKinsey’s Pittsburgh office and a former chair of McKinsey’s global risk, audit, and governance committee