Daniel Wagner
Daniel Wagner writes articles on
political risk for IRMI.com.
Mr. Wagner is the founder and CEO of Country Risk
Solutions (CRS), a political risk advisory firm based in Connecticut
(USA), and senior adviser to the PRS Group.
Prior to founding CRS, Mr. Wagner was senior vice president of
Country Risk at GE Energy Financial Services, where he was part
of a team investing billions of dollars annually into global energy
projects. There, he 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.
Mr. Wagner began his career underwriting political risk insurance
(PRI) at AIG in New York and subsequently spent 5 years as guarantee
officer for the Asia region at the World Bank Group's Multilateral
Investment Guarantee Agency in Washington, DC. 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,
he moved to Manila, Philippines, where he served as a guarantee
and risk management adviser, political risk guarantee specialist,
and senior guarantees and syndications specialist for the Asian
Development Bank's Office of Cofinancing Operations. Over the course
of his quarter century–long career, Mr. Wagner has also held senior
positions in the PRI brokerage business in London, Dallas, and Houston.
Mr. Wagner has published hundreds of articles on risk management
and current affairs, is a nonresident scholar at the Institute for
Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, and is a regular contributor
to foreignpolicyjournal.com, the Huffington Post, and the International
Risk Management Institute, Inc. (IRMI), website,
www.irmi.com. His editorials have been
published in such notable newspapers as the
International Herald
Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. His first book,
Political Risk
Insurance Guide, was published by IRMI. His forthcoming book,
Managing
Country Risk, will be published by Taylor and Francis in the first
quarter of 2012.
Mr. Wagner holds master's degrees in international relations
from the University of Chicago and 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.
Articles on IRMI.com
Political Risk
The Arab Spring's Impact on Cross-Border Trade and Investment
(November 2011)
How Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa Is Affecting
Country Risk Analysis (April 2011)
Managing Political Risk in the New Normal (January 2011)
Is Country Risk Really Rising? (July 2010)
Expropriation: Pakistan's Message to Foreign Investors
(February 2010)
Country Risk Management: Removing Board Blinders (September
2009)
The Political Risks of the Global Recession (March 2009)
Effective
Transactional Risk Management (November 2007)
Putin's
Russia in 2007: Walking a Tightrope (December 2006)
Bolivia's
Larger Message (June 2006)
The
Impact of Terrorism on Foreign Direct Investment (February 2006)
Achieving
Security in the Global Supply Chain (October 2005)
Creating
a Level Playing Field for Local Investors in the Developing World
(May 2005)
The
Implications of Recurring Terrorism for Business (May 2004)
A
Western "Fix" for Iraq? Forget It. (April 2004)
Promoting
Social Responsibility in the Developing World (January 2004)
The
Role of Development Banks in Addressing Political Risk in Asia
(October 2003)
Terrorism's
Impact on International Relations (March 2003)
Political
Risk Insurance in Asia: Who Purchases It, Where, and Why (July
2002)
The
Battle Against Terrorism: A Battle for Stomachs, Hearts, and Minds
(March 2002)
Political
Risk in Asia: Fact or Fiction? (November 2001)
Asia's
Terrorist Conundrum (October 2001)
Political
Risk in Asia: The Need for Structural Reform and the Impact on Political
Risk Insurance (May 2001)
Defining
"Political Risk" (October 2000)
Political
Risk in Post-Crisis Asia (July 2000)
The
Impact of Political Change and How To Protect Your Business Against
It (April 2000)
Russia
in 2000: The Implications of Political Change In the New Millennium
(March 2000)