ExCred International 2023 | Informa Connect | 28 February 2023 | Hilton London Tower Bridge, 5 More London Riverside, Tooley St, London SE1 2BY, UK

Reconnect with the industry to understand how the approach to risk, underwriting and broking are changing, public-private interplay is evolving, and sustainability is being implemented and incentivized.
Optimize your strategies by connecting face-to-face with international leaders across the ecosystem of trade and insurance, including multilateral development banks, ECAs, commercial banks, private insurers, reinsurers, brokers, traders, investment managers, financiers, law firms and other specialists.

2023 Speakers

Richard Abizaid
VP and Senior Underwriter, Vantage

Tighisti Amare
Deputy Director, Africa Programme, Chatham House

Sian Aspinall
Group CEO, BPL Global

Catherine Aubert
Head of Trade Credit & Political Risk Insurance, Société Générale

Marc Auboin
Economic Research Counsellor, The World Trade Organisation

Katherine Baeten
Head of Claims & Recoveries and Active Portfolio Management, UK Export Finance

Julia Beck
Chief Strategy and Impact Officer, UK Export Finance (UKEF)

Matthew Beckett
Executive Director, Head of Insurance Placement EMEA, SMBC

Francesca Beomonte
Global Head of Structured Trade & Export Finance, UniCredit

Simon Bessant
Board Director and the Global Head of Insurance, The Texel Group

Robert Besseling
CEO, Pangea-Risk

Lara Biermann
Business Expert Credit & Surety, SCHUMANN

Lucía Bonet Álvarez
Senior Country Risk Analyst, CESCE

Phil Bonner
Partner, Howden Tiger

Shaun Brown
Associate Director, Financial Strategy & Analytics, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Victor Carstenius
Senior Analyst, Risk Management, EKN

Claudio Cesaroni
Country Risk Analyst, SACE S.p.A.

Natalie Chiaramonte
President, Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd

Henri d’Ambrieres
Principal, HDA CONSEIL

Daniel de Búrca
Head of Public Affairs, ICISA

Jolyn Debuysscher
Senior Country and Sector Risk Analyst, Latin America, Credendo - Export Credit Agency

Claudia Dos-Santos
Associate Director, Supply Chain Finance, Lloyds Banking

Maëlia Dufour
President, Berne Union

Bruce Dunlop
Regional VP, Europe, Export Development Canada

Jørn Fredsgaard
Department Director - Country, Bank and Sector Risk, EKF

Walter Gontarek
Chief Executive & Chairman, Channel

Herman Guelovani
Head of Credit Management, NIBC Bank

Ato Gyasi
Senior Director, the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)

Jussi Haarasilta
Executive VP: Large Corporates, Finnvera

Rahel Haque
Vice President, Climate & ESG Capital Markets, Natwest Markets

David Henig
Director, UK Trade Policy Project, European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)

Sébastien Heurteux
Head of Credit Insurance Syndication, BNP Paribas

Ramona Homfeld
Vice President, KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH

Artūrs Karlsons
Associate Director, Berne Union

Cathrin Karpinski
Head of CEE, CIS & Africa, Commerzbank AG

Lise Kessler
Managing Director, Global Head of Credit Risk Insurance, Crédit Agricole CIB

Faisal Khan
Managing Partner, Acre Impact Capital

Gregory King-Underwood
Head of Global Reinsurance and Portfolio Solutions, BPL Global

Andreas Klasen
Professor of International Business, Offenburg University

Christine Klebl
Senior Underwriter, Credit, Surety and Political Risk, Hannover Re

Jared Kotler
Head of Credit and Political Risk, The Hartford

Shailesh Kumar
Head of The Global Specialty Insights Center, Head of Economic and Geopolitical Risk, The Hartford

John Lentaigne
Global Head of Credit & Political Risk, Tysers

Som-lok Leung
Executive Director, IACPM

Reta Jo Lewis
President and Chair of the Board of Directors, Export-Import Bank of the United States

Gary Lowe
Global Head Credit Insurance, Standard Chartered Bank

Carole Macaire-Freynet
Global Head of Syndication-Distribution, Natixis

Max Magor Ndiaye
Acting Director Of Syndications, Co-financing and Client Solutions, African Development Bank Group

Harry McIndoe
Director, BPL Global

Beatriz Merino
Director, Development Finance Institutions, Europe, The Nature Conservancy

Marc Meyer
SVP Subject Matter Expert Insurance, Tinubu

Simon Morden
Underwriting Manager, AXA XL

Carlos Ng
Executive Director, Head of Trade Credit Insurance, Standard Chartered Bank

Ian Nunn
Head of Political Risk, Credit and Bond, UK & Lloyd's, AXA XL

Duarte Pedreira
Head of International Development Client Coverage & Trade Finance, Crown Agents Bank

Annalisa Prizzon
Principal Research Fellow, ODI

Rudolf Putz
Head Trade Facilitation Programme, EBRD

Bart Raemaekers
Head, Guarantees and Syndications Unit, Asian Development Bank

Michal Ron
Head of International Business, SACE

Marco Schiattone
Financial Risks Senior Underwriter and Member of Senior Management, PartnerRe

Diana Smallridge
President, International Financial Consulting Ltd.

Xavier Solano
Manager Prudential Regulation, Association of British Insurers

Julian Spiegel
Head of Global Credit, Surety, Political Risk Reinsurance, Navigators Re

Michael Stopfkuchen
Consultant ESG Innovation & Management, AKA Ausfuhrkredit-Gesellschaft mbH

N L N Swaroop
Global Product Head – Sustainability, Innovation, FIs & Asset Distribution, HSBC

Jim Thomas
Global Head of Credit & Political Risk, Everest

Olga Tschekassin
Country Risk Expert, Senior Vice President, SERV Swiss Export Risk Insurance

Bhavtik Vallabhjee
Head: Power, Utilities and Infrastructure, Absa Corporate & Investment Bank

Louise Van Cauwenbergh
Senior Country Risk Analyst Sub-Saharan Africa, Credendo

Andrew van den Born
Managing Director, Global Head of CPRI for FinanciaI Institutions, WTW

Adam Ward
Director and Founder, Geopolitico Ltd

Craig Weitz
Principal: Export Credit Finance, Nedbank Limited

Piers Weston
Responsible Investment & ESG Advisor

Lisa Maria Esteban Willis
Senior Claims & Recovery Manager, CESCE

Janusz Wladyczak
CEO, KUKE S.A.

Richard Wulff
Executive Director, ICISA

2023 Sponsors and Partners

GOLD PARTNERS:
• AXA XL
• BPL Global
• The Hartford

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Everest
• Prof. Schumann GmbH
• Sovereign Risk Insurance

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• Howden Tiger
• The Texel Group
• Tinubu
• Tysers
• Vantage Risk
• WTW

BREAKFAST BRIEFING PARTNER:
• Pangea-Risk

ASSOCIATE PARTNERS:
• Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
• UK Export Finance

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• The Berne Union
• International Credit Insurance & Surety Association (ICISA)
• Oxford Analytica
• Trade Finance Global