Merlin Linehan is a Risk Manager at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He has over ten years’ experience in responding to global security, geopolitical and cyber events for the EBRD. He is a regular contributor to banking and risk publications, covering geopolitical risk, climate change and resilience, most recently publishing a chapter (Geopolitics and Climate Change, How Can Multinational Enterprises prepare?) in the Routledge Handbook of Political Risk. Merlin is also a regular speaker at conferences and webinars focusing on managing global risks and building organisational resilience.