Geo-political Risks

The Master’s Series of Topical Briefings continues on 28 February when we turn our attention to the sensitive and controversial subject of geo-political risk.

The recent war in the Ukraine has highlighted the risks and challenges of recent global geo-political events.

To understand these events, we have assembled a highly experienced set of analysts to help us deconstruct these risks and explain how they impact all of us in our daily and professional lives.

Discussion points

• What are geo-political risks?
• What are the current regional and global risks impacting the global community? Ukraine – Russia – China – USA driving global agendas.
• What are the political, economic, military and social risks that can emerge?
• Talk about the economic impact – The fuel crisis, the oil and gas crisis and increases in prices for businesses and consumers.
• How conflicts, wars, major shifts in power and civil disturbances can impact the world order. We live in an interconnected world.
• Macroeconomic and microeconomic views and perspectives
• The chain of events that can be set off: war in Ukraine, short supply of gas and food grains, supply disruption in supermarkets, increased prices, cost of living crisis in UK, political response from NATO, etc
• How do you mitigate these risks? Use of insurance, alternative risk transfer and government as an underwriter of last resort
• Insurance and reinsurance capacity constraints and exclusions specifically with Ukraine and Russia risks with increased pricing
• Comparison of terrorism with political risks: similarities and differences

These issues will be examined and debated by a panel of experts from WTW (Willis Towesr Watson) led by Helene Galy and Stuart Ashworth.