Sound Policy podcast: How resilient is your business?

On the latest episode of Sound Policy, FM’s podcast about risk and resilience, we’re taking a global view: Every year, we release the FM Resilience Index, a ranking of the business environments of 130 countries and territories. The 2026 ranking had Denmark on top, Venezuela at the bottom, and plenty of insights in between.

To help break it all down, we spoke with Simon Barsoum, an FM engineer who was born and raised in Denmark. He explains what makes the country so resilient and how it’s responding to recent tensions with the U.S. over Greenland. We also spoke with Leo Kushner, who helps manage the FM Resilience Index, about how this tool is used and some of the broader insights from the 2026 version.

To explore the 2026 rankings and learn more about the Index, visit fm.com/resilienceindex.

To listen to the episode, click on the player above, or find links on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 

Below, you’ll find an automatically generated transcript of the conversation.