Venue
Hilton London Tower Bridge
Hilton London Tower Bridge, 5 More London Pl, Tooley St, London SE1 2BY, UK

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Event Date Wed Feb 28 GMT - Thu Feb 29 GMT (10 months ago)
In your timezone (EST): Tue Feb 27 7:00pm - Wed Feb 28 7:00pm
Location Hilton London Tower Bridge
5 More London Pl, Tooley St, London SE1 2BY, UK
Region EMEA
Details

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 incentivised.

Optimise 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

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Mahfuza Afroz
Head of Credit Insurance Products, Syndications, International Finance Corporation

Tighisti Amare
Deputy Director, Africa Programme, Chatham House

María Arbulo
Environmental Analyst, CESCE

Wola Asase
Senior Vice President, Head of Syndications, Africa Finance Corporation

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 Portfolio Management, UK Export Finance

Rachel Barker
Claims Counsel, Liberty Specialty Markets

Esther Baur Reinecke
Head Public Sector Solutions Europe, Swiss Re

Francesca Beomonte
Chair of Export Finance Expert Working Group at the European Banking Federation, and ECAs Senior Originator, UniCredit

Robert Besseling
CEO, Pangea-Risk

Lara Biermann
Business Expert Credit & Surety, SCHUMANN

Daniel Borrego Cubero
Head, Debt Mobilisation Product Development, EBRD

Natalie Chiaramonte
President, Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd

Frederique Dahan
Director of Development and Public Finance programme, ODI

Daniel de Búrca
Head of Public Affairs, ICISA

Maëlia Dufour
President, Berne Union

Bruce Dunlop
Regional VP, EMEA, EDC

Dennis Eucogco
Principal Investment Specialist (Guarantees and Syndications), Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Jørn Fredsgaard Sørensen
Senior Director, Country, Bank & Sector Risk, EIFO

Shirish Garg
Director, Trade Finance and Working Capital Sales, Lloyds Banking

Ornella Gutierrez
Trade Finance Officer, IDB Invest

Philippe Guyonnet-Dupérat
Secretary General, The Paris Club

Shuichi Hayashida
Head of West and Central Africa, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

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

Sébastien Heurteux
Head – Credit Insurance Syndication, BNP Paribas

Stuart Hulks
Head of Insurance and ECA Finance, RMB

Pouya Jafari
Vice President, SMBC

Nick James
Director, ICBC Standard Bank Plc

Nabil Jijakli
Group Deputy CEO, Credendo

Artūrs Karlsons
Associate Director, Berne Union

Cathrin Karpinski
SETF Sector Lead, Structured Export & Trade Finance, Commerzbank AG

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

Andreas Klasen
Professor and HRA, University of Oxford

Jared Kotler
Head of Credit and Political Risk, The Hartford

John Lentaigne
Global Head of Credit & Political Risk, Tysers

Ralph Lerch
Head Export Finance, DZ Bank

Gary Lowe
Global Head Credit Insurance, Standard Chartered Bank

Carole Macaire-Freynet
Global Head Infrastructure and Energy Finance Syndication and CPRI, Natixis

Kerry Magnus
Senior Underwriter - Credit and Political Risk, The Hartford

Harsha Mehta
ITFA Emerging Leader, EMEA/LatAm Trade Asset Distribution, Citi

Ayomide Mejabi
Chief Economist: Sub-Saharan Africa, JP Morgan

Marc Meyer
SVP Subject Matter Expert Insurance, Tinubu

Chris Mitman
Head of Export & Agency Finance, Investec

Simon Morden
Underwriting Manager, AXA XL

Manuel Moses
CEO, African Trade & Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI)

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

Duarte Pedreira
Managing Director, Alisandu Capital Management and Board Member, ITFA

Romanie Peters
Senior Company Lawyer, Legal and Claims Coordinator, Credendo

Rudolf Putz
Head Trade Facilitation Programme, EBRD

Charlie Radcliffe
Director, BPL Global

Krishnan Ramadurai
Global Head of Capital Management for the Trade & Receivable Finance Portfolio, HSBC

Daniel Riordan
Global Head of Political Risk & Credit, Vantage Group Holdings Ltd

Effy Ritter
Associate Director, Head of Climate Risk, EBRD

Michal Ron
Chief International Business Officer, SACE

Harriet Rowland Clark
Senior Insurance Specialist, Insured Credit, Aegon Asset Management

Carol Searle
General Counsel, Texel

Kruskaia Sierra Escalante
Senior Manager, Co-Investor Solutions, Treasury & Mobilization, International Finance Corporation

Diana Smallridge
President & CEO, Momentus Global

Xavier Solano
Manager Prudential Regulation, Association of British Insurers

Bessem Soua
Division Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, ICIEC

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

Michael Stopfkuchen
Head of Sustainability & Communications, AKA Ausfuhrkredit-Gesellschaft mbH

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

Andreas Treede
Director Restructurings, KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH

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

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

Jenni Virkki
Head of Reinsurance and Risk Transfer, Finnvera Plc

Katarzyna Kowalska
COO, Board Member, KUKE

Craig Weitz
Principal: Export Credit Finance, Nedbank Limited

James Wilson
Head of Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) - UK & Continental Europe, The Hartford

Johanna Wissing
Director, Deputy Head Trade Finance Syndication, Credit Suisse

Richard Wulff
Executive Director, ICISA

Janusz Władyczak
CEO, KUKE S.A.

Lotfi Zairi
Head of Sovereign Division, ICIEC

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Partners

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

SILVER PARTNERS:
• ATIDI
• Schumann
• Sovereign Risk Insurance

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• Liberty Specialty Markets
• Pangea-Risk
• Swiss Re Group
• The Texel Group
• Tinubu
• Tysers
• Vantage Risk
• WTW

ASSOCIATE PARTNER:
• Credendo