- The World Economic Forum and the United Arab Emirates launch Global Regulatory Innovation Platform to modernize regulation amid rapid technological disruption.
- The initiative will bring together global industry experts to design new adaptive approaches to dynamic sectors such as AI, healthcare and digital finance.
- The platform will pilot solutions and deliver practical tools for governments to develop future-ready regulation fit for a fast-changing world.
- Learn more about the Global Regulatory Innovation Platform here .
Geneva, Switzerland, 4 July 2025 - The World Economic Forum today launched the Global Regulatory Innovation Platform (GRIP) - an international initiative designed to strengthen how governments design and adapt regulation in step with accelerating technological change.
Developed in partnership with the United Arab Emirates' General Secretariat of the Cabinet, GRIP comes at a critical moment for regulatory systems. As breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, biotechnology and digital finance shape the 'Intelligent Age', regulatory innovation will become increasingly critical to building effective, adaptive and future-ready regulatory ecosystems
The new Forum-led platform will tackle these challenges by providing a global space for cross-sector leaders to advance agile, human-centred, future-ready models that can keep pace with disruptions of today and tomorrow.
"Innovation moves fast - regulation must too," said Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum. "GRIP enables governments to co-create policy frameworks that are agile, anticipatory and ready for the technologies shaping our future."
Over the next two years, GRIP will produce three key tools:
· A Global Regulatory Playbook - to provide policy frameworks, case studies and actionable guidance for designing innovation-friendly regulation
· A Regulatory Future Readiness Index - to benchmark how prepared governments are to regulate emerging technologies in a fast-changing global context
· A Global Regulatory Innovation Hub - to facilitate collaboration between innovators and regulators to test and scale practical solutions to shared challenges
"Sustainable economies thrive only within forward-looking and agile regulatory ecosystems. The quality of life of our communities in the future exponentially depends on the work conducted by regulators," said Her Excellency Maryam Al Hammadi, Minister of State and Secretary General of the UAE Cabinet. "The Global Regulatory Innovation Platform will strive to empower legislators globally, providing them with cutting-edge regulatory tools and data to keep pace with a world of relentless technological breakthroughs.
Boston Consulting Group will contribute as knowledge partner, alongside a network of leading legal, policy and tech experts from the Forum's Industry Communities and its Chief Legal and Compliance Officers communities .
At a time when public trust is fraying and global standards diverging, GRIP represents a new model for strategic, future-ready regulation - bridging public and private expertise from diverse sectors and geographies to build smarter, more resilient and more trusted regulatory models that work for all.
