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Daniel Wagner

Founder and CEO
Country Risk Solutions
(203) 570-1005

www.countryrisksolutions.com

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)

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