Ajay Gambhir is the Director of Systemic Risk Assessment at the Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA), an independent initiative hosted by the United Nations Foundation that aims to mainstream systemic risk assessment in policy and decision-making in response to current and future challenges. Ajay is responsible for the development and implementation of frameworks, tools and methods to help organisations and communities understand interacting, compounding and cascading risks. Ajay is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London.
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The slow forces behind this year’s fast crises
Systemic risk analysis allows us to fully comprehend the long-tail of all the crises peaking this year. But it also reveals how we can turn these exponential curves around, accelerating just as fast and as far in the opposite direction.
January 29, 2026
Emissions should fall ‘twice as fast’ in case negative emissions fail
Many model pathways designed to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement rely heavily on large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), also known as “negative emissions”.
July 29, 2021
