The global economic order is being redrawn at speed. Trade routes that were once taken for granted are now contested; supply chains built on decades of stability are fracturing under the weight of geopolitical rivalry, policy reversals and demand shifts emerging from places that rarely featured in a senior leader’s risk register. Tariff shocks, sanctions ripple effects, commodity dislocations and the uneven pace of digital adoption are the operating realities of the day. For business leaders in India, the challenge is not simply to absorb these shocks but to anticipate them, map their second-order effects across industries, and act before the damage reaches the organisation.

In this session, Amit Agarwal will examine how today’s turbulent geopolitical and macroeconomic environment is reshaping the risk landscape for Indian businesses. Drawing on his experience across diverse industries, Amit will explore how supply chain vulnerabilities are being triggered by shocks that originate far from a company’s immediate ecosystem and why these disruptions carry ripple effects that few organisations have yet fully mapped. He will address what it means to build genuine resilience in this environment: from stress-testing assumptions about sourcing and revenue to rethinking capital deployment in a world where the next disruption could come from an unexpected direction. The session will be equally relevant for CEOs and CFOs, offering a clear-eyed view of what a prepared leadership team looks like, and what it takes to protect the organisation without paralysing it.