Rickli heads the Global and Emerging Risks Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva. He is also co-chair of the Emerging Security Challenges Working Group of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium (PFPC) and co-curator of the International Security Map of the World Economic Forum's Strategic Intelligence Platform. He also represents the GCSP in the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.