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"Greater information sharing is one important aspect to enhancing the risk assessment, which is key to being able to better predict where problems are likely to arise. Generating accurate risk assessments is critical to increasing the flow of foreign direct investment to the most difficult conflict ridden areas of the globe. The problem is that as the realities of the post-September 11 world become clearer, the utter unpredictability of political events makes the creation of more accurate risk analyses even more difficult to produce." |
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Managing Director Biography
DANIEL WAGNER  Daniel Wagner is Managing Director of Country Risk Solutions (CRS), a political and economic risk consultancy based in Connecticut (USA). Daniel has more than 20 years of experience managing country risk. He is an authority on political risk insurance (PRI) and analysis and has 15 years of underwriting experience with AIG, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), GE, and the World Bank Group.
Prior to founding CRS in 2009 Daniel was Senior Vice President of Country Risk at GE Energy Financial Services in Stamford, Connecticut. At GE he was part of a team investing billions of dollars annually into global energy projects, with a total portfolio of $20 billion of assets in 20 countries. Daniel was responsible for advising senior management on a variety of country risk-related issues, strategic planning, and portfolio management. He created a Center of Excellence for country risk analysis in GE and led a team that produced a comprehensive automated country risk rating methodology. Daniel began his career at AIG in New York and subsequently spent five years as Guarantee Officer for the Asia Region at the World Bank Group's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) in Washington, D.C. During that time he was responsible for underwriting PRI for projects in a dozen Asian countries. After then serving as Regional Manager for Political Risks for Southeast Asia and Greater China for AIG in Singapore, Daniel moved to Manila, Philippines where he was Guarantee and Risk Management Advisor, Political Risk Guarantee Specialist, and Senior Guarantees and Syndications Specialist for the ADB's Office of Cofinancing Operations. Over the course of his career Daniel has also held senior positions in the PRI brokerage business in New York, London, Dallas and Houston. Daniel has published more than 70 articles on risk management, PRI, terrorism, and related subjects. His editorials have been published in such notable newspapers as the International Herald Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. His book - Political Risk Insurance Guide - was published by the International Risk Management Institute. He holds master's degrees in International Relations from the University of Chicago and in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Phoenix. He received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from Richmond College in London. Daniel is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. |
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