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Arathi Krishnan

Arathi Krishnan

Founder and CEO of RAKSHA Intelligence Futures, specializing in strategic foresight, anticipatory governance, and humanitarian futures.

Jul 20, 2026

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3:03
How do you see that? How is it affecting insurance costs now as a result, especially when you say essentially traffic is at a standstill now?
3:12
Right.
3:13
So what happens is since February, the cost of ensuring a container has increased exponentially.
3:24
So even if they were saying that the Strait was open or closed, that wasn't actually the issue.
3:29
It was becoming more about can a container, can a company actually afford to now ensure its ships to go through? Now, if you're looking, I think Lloyds is having the committee at Lloyds of London that designates high-risk waters.
3:49
And if it adds the Southern Red Sea to that list, shipping costs will jump up automatically across the industry.
3:56
And that's the fastest and the most honest signal that the Ritz has crossed the line.
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5:40
And do you think the markets are underappreciating that and also the inflation effect as a result?
13:47
Arati, how, how about you from y- where you're sitting? Do you think the next secretary-general has the tools to, to make this happen?
13:55
So I have a slightly different vantage point on this, but on this note, I would fully agree with Martin and Sigrid.
14:02
There are two things for me that is really pointed at this point in time for what the secretary-general is inheriting.
14:10
A, that, um, exactly as Sigrid said, the politics of the moment is far too divided and transactional.
14:19
The playbook that the UN is used to deploying isn't fit for the types of crises we're facing, and it's falling back on old playbooks of the past, assuming that member states can come together, that ultimately every party wants the same thing, and that's not true anymore.
14:34
And secondly, its current architecture seems to be...
14:39
It's, it's very much thinned out.

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24:44
So I'm wondering, Ar- Aarathi, um, what, what could or should the next secretary-general do in order to prepare? Like, what's blinking right now on their dashboard? What's the thing that they should be thinking of?

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