OECD - Good Governance for Critical Infrastructure Resilience

This report was prepared under the auspices of the OECD High Level risk Forum by the OECD Public Governance Directorate, led by Marcos Bonturi.

The report presents the results of the work of the OECD High-Level Risk Forum to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure through improved governance. This report was co-ordinated and written by Charles Baubion, under the guidance of Jack Radisch and Stphane Jacobzone. Chapters 1 to 3 build on the Policy Evaluation Framework on the Governance of Critical Infrastructure Resilience, developed by Mary Kate Fisher and Catherine Gamper, as part of a project that the OECD jointly conducted with the Inter-American Development Bank. Ariadna Anisimov conducted the analysis of the OECD cross-country survey on critical infrastructure resilience and provided valuable research assistance throughout the project, especially for the case study on electricity transmission and distribution in Finland. Teresa Maria Deubelli and John Roche contributed to the project with their insights and feedbacks. Raquel Paraqueno prepared the report for publication. The team is very grateful for assistance provided by Elisabeth Huggard throughout the project.

The Secretariat acknowledges contributions from the High-Level Risk Forum delegates who responded to the OECD Survey, and specifically from the following colleagues for their appreciated feedbacks and comments: Ryan Schwartz and Trent Abbott (Canada), Tiphaine Beaussant (France), Kathrin Stolzenburg (Germany), Georgios Giannopoulos and Maciej Kuszynski (European Commission), Christian Fjder and Mikko Vh-Sipil (Finland), Daigo Ota (Japan), Piotr Szufnara (Poland) Stefan Brem (Switzerland), and Elizabeth Lozey and Susan Stevens (United States). Duane Verner (Argonne National Laboratory), Marie-Valentine Florin (International Risk Governance Council), Richard Smith-Bingham (Marsh and McLennan Companies), and Elisa Gastaldi (Siemens) provided complementary perspectives from research and the private sectors.

Comments and feedback received from OECD colleagues Laurent Bernat, Lisa Danielson, Michael Mullan, and Leigh Wolfrom, as well as Nuclear Energy Agency colleague Olvido Guzman, helped integrate complementary perspectives in the analysis.

The report benefited from discussions held at the Workshop on System-Thinking for Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Security, jointly organised by the OECD and the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in September 2018. Special thanks go to the speakers and experts involved for their valuable insights, and to the JRC for its support in organising this event.

The financial support received from the Finland National Emergency Supply Agency (NESA) was instrumental for conducting the Finland case study and is gratefully acknowledge by the OECD, as is the contribution of the Inter-American Development Bank for the preliminary analysis.