• The Geopolitical Benchmark Survey - Risks and Opportunities

  • About This Survey

    This benchmark survey is conducted by the Society for Geopolitics (S4GEO), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, to establish how global enterprises define, quantify, and govern geopolitical dynamics within corporate strategy. S4GEO advances applied geopolitical analysis to support executive leadership, board-level decision-making, and strategic resource allocation.

    Your contributions will directly shape an industry-wide framework designed to convert geopolitical risk signals into actionable business metrics. Survey respondents will receive access to the aggregated benchmark findings and an invitation to an exclusive, respondents-only virtual pre-briefing, planned for December 2026.

    • Completion Time: around 15 minutes.
    • Note on definitions: We welcome raw internal perspectives; feel free to reference or paste directly from your organization's internal frameworks or guidelines.

  • Confidentiality:
    All responses to the following questions are strictly anonymized and reported only in aggregate.

  • Question 1: Your Professional Context

  • 1B: I have worked in my industry for the following number of years. (Select one)

  • Question 2: Respondent Role & Organizational Perspective

  • Which of the following best describes your primary functional role within your organization? (Select one)

  • Question 3: Organizational Context

  • Please tell us the following about your organization

  • Number of Employees Globally:

  • Question 4: Identify Baseline Criteria:

  • Does your organization formally define "political risk" or "geopolitical risk" in its corporate risk, strategy, or policy framework?

  • Question 5: Responsibility for Assessing Geopolitical Risk:

  • Which of the following best describes how your organization structures responsibility for assessing geopolitical risk?

  • Question 6: Incorporation into Decision Making

  • Which statement(s) best describes how geopolitical risk is incorporated into organizational decision-making? (Select all that apply)

  • Question 7:

  • Does your organization consider "Geopolitical risk" to be distinct from "political risk"

  • Question 8: Types of Geopolitical Events

  • These could all be considered risks. Does your organization view them as primarily "geopolitical risk"? (This will be used to help us refine our definition of "geopolitical risk")
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  • Question 9: Geopolitical Risk Indices

  • If your organization actively monitors geopolitical risk, what are the most important types of indices that you use? (Check all that apply)

  • Question 10: Geopolitical / Political Risk Loss Experience

  • In the last 10 years, has your organization experienced geopolitical or politics-based losses or negative impacts?

  • Question 11: Opportunity vs. Threat Framing (Capturing Upside)

  • Does your organization's risk framework evaluate geopolitical dynamics primarily as downside threats or as strategic market opportunities?

  • Question 12: Impact & Resource Allocation

  • Over the past 24 months, how have geopolitical risk evaluations directly impacted your organization's strategy? (Select all that apply)

  • Your Contact Information
    Please provide your contact information, so that we may provide you with the results of the survey.

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