Speaker Bios

Morning Keynote Address

Dr. Louis T. Wells

Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His principal consulting activities have been concerned with foreign investment policy and with negotiations between foreign investors and host governments. His research interests include multinational enterprises; international business-government relations; foreign investment in developing countries; and foreign investment by firms from developing countries. He was the Coordinator for Indonesia Projects, Harvard Institute for International Development, Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1994-5. His associations include: Fellow -Academy of International Business, member - Foreign Advisory Board - Lahore Business School, and member - Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Wells received a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School.

Panel 1 - Energy & Resource Nationalism

Napier Collyns

Napier Collyns is a cofounder of Global Business Network. He is also a board member of the Arlington Institute and the Meridian International Institute, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and a member of Forum 21, International Futures Forum, and the editorial boards of Omnipedia—Thinking for Tomorrow and Geopolitics of Energy. Until recently he was a senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a public director of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), editor-at-large for Doubleday Currency, a board member of the Strategic Management Society and a participant in the ICIS Forum. Before joining GBN, Napier spent more than 30 years in the international oil industry, mostly with companies of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in Venezuela, Nigeria, New York, London, and The Hague. He was a senior member of the small team at Shell that developed scenario planning in the early 1970s under the leadership of Pierre Wack. From 1974 to 1979, Napier was head of planning for Shell companies in Europe. From 1979 to 1986, he was vice president of Scallop Corporation in New York, responsible for planning and public affairs. During this time he was also a director of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce, the British American Chamber of Commerce, the Council of the Americas, the American Geographical Society, the Issues Management Association, and the International Center in New York. He was also a member of the Tarrytown 100. From 1986 to 1988, Napier was director of public affairs for Atlantic Refining & Marketing in Philadelphia. Since 1988 he has been scenario consultant to the Californian Energy Commission and has helped the national oil companies of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Venezuela, as well as major international oil companies and electric utilities, to develop their own scenario planning processes. Napier has master's degrees in history from the University of Cambridge and Brown University. He was a consultant to the eight-part public television series, Oil, and to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the oil industry, The Prize. Napier resides in New York City, Berkeley, and London. He is married with five sons and 11 grandchildren.

Antoine Halff

Antoine Halff is head of commodity research at Newedge USA and adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University (Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy). In 2005, he launched the energy practice of the Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consultancy firm in New York, focusing on the interplay of energy markets and geopolitics and directing the energy-relevant work of the firm's team of about 50 regional and country analysts.

Mikkal Herberg

Mikkal Herberg is BP Foundation Senior Research Fellow for International Energy at the Pacific Council on International Policy. He also teaches at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as research director on Asian energy security at The National Bureau of Asian Research. Previously he spent 20 years in the oil industry with ARCO, where from 1997 to 2000 he was director for global energy and economics, responsible for worldwide energy, economic, and political analysis. He also headed country risk management and held other senior positions, including director of portfolio risk management and director for emerging markets. He writes and speaks internationally on Asian and global energy issues. Herberg has testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and the California Energy Commission.

David Hobbs

David Hobbs, CERA Vice President and Managing Director of Global Research, is an expert in energy industry structure and strategies. He previously led CERA’s research activities in oil markets and strategies, liquefied natural gas, technology, and environmental strategies. Mr. Hobbs is an author of the major CERA studies In Search of Reasonable Certainty: Oil and Gas Reserves Disclosures, a comprehensive analysis of the problem of assessing reserves, and Modernizing Oil and Gas Disclosures. He is also a principal author of the CERA Multiclient Study Harnessing the Storm—Investment Challenges and the Future of the Oil Value Chain and is the author of the CERA Private Report Daring to Be Disciplined: Continuous Portfolio Improvement. Prior to joining CERA, Mr. Hobbs had two decades of experience in the international exploration and production business. He has directed projects in Asia, South America, North America, and the North Sea. He has led major international investment and asset commercialization operations, and arranged funding, acquisition, divestment, and partnership transactions. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mr. Hobbs holds a degree from Imperial College.

Moderator: Prof. Bruce Everett

Bruce Everett graduated from Princeton University in 1969. MA and PhD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1980. He served in the Office of International Affairs at the US Federal Energy Administration and the US Department of Energy from 1974 to 1980.

In 1980, Bruce joined Exxon Corporation in the Corporate Planning Department. Over the next 22 years, he held a succession of positions with Exxon and ExxonMobil, including Manager of Energy and Petroleum Economics in Esso Europe, Manager of Planning and Analysis at Exxon Coal & Minerals Company, Operations Manager at the Carter Mining Company (Wyoming coal), Executive Director of Exxon Energy in Hong Kong, Regional Natural Gas Manager for the Middle East, Africa and Latin America at Exxon Company, International and Deputy Manager of Public Affairs, ExxonMobil Downstream Companies. He retired in June 2002, and is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of International Business at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.

Panel 2 - Political Risk & Business Intelligence

Mike Baker

During a career spanning over fifteen years as an operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mike specialized in counterterrorism, counternarcotics and counterinsurgency. He engaged in, organized and supervised operations around the globe, working in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. He was recognized professionally for outstanding performance and for operational achievements in hostile environments. In December 2000, Mike co-founded Diligence LLC, an intelligence, risk management and security firm. As a principal partner and CEO, he led the company as it expanded to several offices in Europe and the United States, and established the company’s security operations in Iraq in 2003, building a team of over 300 expat and local personnel involved in security and information collection. In early 2005 Mike, along with business partners including current Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and leading Republican strategist Ed Rogers, decided to sell their holdings and exit the company. Mike rejoined Diligence in early 2009. He is a regular contributor in the national and international media as an intelligence, security and counterterrorist analyst.

Nelson Cunningham

Nelson Cunningham is managing partner of McLarty Associates, an international strategic advisory firm he co-founded with Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty in 1998. Previously, Mr. Cunningham was Special Advisor to President Clinton for Western Hemisphere Affairs and served as a lawyer at the White House and as General Counsel to Senator Joseph Biden. Prior, Mr. Cunningham was a federal prosecutor in New York under then-US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. He was a foreign policy and trade advisor to the 2004 Kerry campaign and a member of the Obama-Biden transition team. As co-founder and managing partner of McLarty Associates, he has built it into a global firm serving clients in every major market in the world. Mr. Cunningham serves on the boards of the Institute of the Americas, the Business Council for International Understanding, the American Security Project, and the US-India Business Council, serves as chair of NDN’s Latin America Policy Initiative, and is a member of the Yale President's Council on International Activities and the Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. He speaks fluent Spanish, and is a graduate of Yale College and Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

David Gordon

David F. Gordon is Eurasia Group's head of research and director of global macro analysis. Before joining Eurasia Group, David spent more than ten years working at the highest levels of US foreign and national security policy processes. David served as the director of policy planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, held a top management role at the National Intelligence Council (NIC), and served as the director of CIA's Office of Transnational Issues. Prior to his work in the public sector, David pursued an academic career, teaching at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the College of William and Mary, Princeton University, Georgetown University and the University of Nairobi. David is a graduate of Bowdoin College and received his PhD at the University of Michigan in 1981.

Peter Nolan

Peter Nolan joined Control Risks in 2008 as Vice President, Corporate Investigations. Over the past decade, Peter has managed and conducted a diverse range of sophisticated and sensitive due diligence projects around the world. As a leading risk management expert, he has applied his expertise on matters ranging from the evaluation of prospective merger and acquisition targets in the private equity world, to assistance granted to philanthropic organizations giving overseas. Prior to joining Control Risks, Peter was a cofounder and partner at Factum Partners, an international consulting firm focused on providing transparency and due diligence services to philanthropic donors operating in emerging markets. In this capacity, he worked with family foundations and wealthy individual donors, assisting them in structuring their gifts and ensuring that their charitable investments produced measurable returns. Peter also comanaged the New York office of Diligence, supervising a team of 21 junior employees, with direct responsibility for projects conducted in over 30 countries. Peter personally led due diligence investigative efforts in India, Africa and Eastern Europe, and spearheaded Diligence's business development efforts in New York. Peter obtained a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1996 and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Andrew R. Marshall

Andrew R. Marshall is chief risk officer for Business Intelligence and Investigations. He joined Kroll in 2003 and has also been head of the Emerging Markets practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa. From 2001 to 2003, Andrew ran Key Message Communications, a consultancy firm providing professional communications services to clients in financial services, risk management, government, media and public affairs. He was managing editor of eCountries, an online intelligence service, in 2000. Andrew spent 15 years in international journalism. He was foreign editor, Washington Bureau chief and Brussels Bureau chief for The Independent newspaper between 1990 and 2000. He also worked on the foreign staff of the Financial Times and for Oxford Analytica. Andrew was educated at Oxford University where he received his Bachelors degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Moderator: Brian Ganson

Professor Brian Ganson is a member of The Fletcher School’s faculty. He is a renowned consultant in conflict management, negotiation, and relationship management to private and not-for-profit organizations. Professor Ganson has held several prestigious positions in the US Government and academic institutions. Professor Ganson is a graduate of The Fletcher School and holds a JD from Harvard Law School.

Panel 3 - Investment & Trade Finance in Conflict Affected Countries

Afternoon Keynote Address: Llewellyn Howell

Emeritus Professor of International Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management

Llewellyn Howell Bio

Dr Dominick Donald

Dominick Donald has been Vice President and Chief Analyst for Aegis Defense Services LLC since September 2008, having joined its UK parent company at the latter’s inception in 2002. He leads the company’s influential analytical work on Iraq and the Long War; heads its role as consultants to the Joint War Risks Committee of Lloyd’s of London, where it helps to shape the global insurance community’s perception of maritime risk; and has been intimately involved in its work helping international corporates and financial institutions understand conflict and post-conflict business environments. After reading Modern History at Oxford University, service in the British Army (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) and work as a TV scriptwriter and university lecturer, he completed a PhD on peace operations thinking at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL). He has worked as a Programme Officer at UNHQ in New York, as a foreign affairs and defence leader (editorial) writer for The Times of London, and as a contributing editor for Red Herring business magazine. He is a regular reviewer for The Guardian. His publications include academic articles on peace operations, chapters in several academic books including The Oxford Companion to Military History, and ‘After The Bubble’, the first study of the likely direction of the British private security company sector after Iraq. He has been a regular guest lecturer at the UK’s Defence Academy and various colleges of London University, is a member of the Insurgency Research Group at KCL, and blogs (under the pseudonym ‘Autolycus’) on Small Wars Journal.

Barbara Day

Barbara Day currently is serving as OPIC’S Acting Vice President, Investment Funds. Prior to her temporary appointment as Acting Vice President, she was legal counsel to OPIC's investment funds group. Before joining OPIC in 2000, Barbara was a partner with the lawfirm Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Washington, D.C. She holds law degrees from Georgetown University Law School (LL.M international and comparative law) and the University of Notre Dame.

David Drysdale

David Drysdale has worked in the field of export credits for the past fifteen years. He spent eight years working at the Export-Import Bank of the United States prior to becoming the Deputy Director of the Office of Trade Finance and Investment Negotiations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in September 2002. Prior to working for the U.S. government, Mr. Drysdale practiced law in Washington, D.C. for seven years focusing on commercial and regulatory law. He holds a BA in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, a JD from the Washington College of Law at the American University, and an LLM from the University of London. Between undergraduate and graduate studies, Mr. Drysdale was an officer in the United States Navy.

John Greenwood

Mr. Greenwood has worked in Citi in its Export and Agency Finance group for the past six years leading the origination and execution of structured finance transactions using Official Agency support, primarily in the Latin American region. He has executed corporate and project finance transactions for both sovereign and private sector clients in a wide range of industries including telecom, power, industrials, oil & gas, and financial institutions. Many of these transactions have been awarded “Deal of the year” recognition by leading international finance and trade publications. Prior to joining Citi, Mr. Greenwood spent four years at Merrill Lynch, where he worked in asset management, and then as a Manager of European Business Development in Merrill Lynch’s Corporate Strategy group in London and Paris. Mr Greenwood holds a bachelor degree in international political economics from the College of William and Mary and a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he specialized in emerging market finance and monetary policy.

Rashmi Nehra

Rashmi Nehra joined Chartis’ Global Trade & Political Risk group in 2007. Prior to joining Chartis, Rashmi was a senior political risk insurance underwriter with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) where she used her technical knowledge to market political risk insurance products, and to assess, price, and underwrite highly complex transactions in a variety of sectors. Prior to her tenure at OPIC, she served as the Director of Programs at the International Tax and Investment Center and a senior trade specialist at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States.

Rashmi holds an Executive Certificate in International Business Management from Georgetown University; an M.A. in International Affairs, with a concentration in International Business, from George Washington University; and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island.

Jim Williams

Jim Williams is responsible for the origination, underwriting and management of OPIC’s political risk insurance business in Africa, the Middle East, and southern Asia. Mr. Williams has extensive experience working with individuals and businesses investing in privately owned and managed projects as well as public private partnership and other creatively structured projects in the emerging markets. Before joining OPIC, Mr. Williams worked for PSC, an international investment consulting firm in Philadelphia, and the Skarrup Group, a shipping company in Greenwich. He also worked with the Arabian Petroleum Supply Company, a Mobil- Alireza joint venture for the supply and distribution of petroleum products in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Williams has a Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, a Masters of Business Administration from Boston University, and a Master of Arts in International Business Relations from The Fletcher School.

Moderator: Professor Laurent Jacque

Laurent L. Jacque is Walter B. Wriston Professor of International Finance & Banking at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) and Director of its International Business Studies Program. Since 1990 he has also held a joint appointment at the HEC School of Management (France) as a Professor of Economics, Finance, and International Business. From 1976 to 1987 he was on the faculty of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania before teaching at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (1987-93). In 1990 he served as the Chin Sophonpanich Foundation Research Professor of Banking and Finance at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand).

He is the author of two books, Management and Control of Foreign Exchange Risk (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996) , Management of Foreign Exchange Risk: Theory and Praxis (Lexington Books, 1978) as well as more than 25 articles on International Risk Management Multinational Control Systems , Capital Markets, which have appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Operations Research Society, Columbia Journal of World Business, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Insurance Mathematics and Economics, Management Science etc... He served as an advisor and consultant to the Foreign Exchange Rate Forecasting Service of Wharton Econometrics, Forecasting Associates (1982-90) and as a member of Water Technologies Inc.'s board of directors (1991-94).

Panel 4 – Investment Guarantees & Political Risk Insurance

Julie Martin

Julie Martin, a Senior Vice President in the Political Risk Practice of Marsh USA, is based in Washington, D. C. She is responsible for development and management of the political risk business in the Mid-Atlantic and South regions. Julie’s work in political risk includes program structure, exposure analysis, insurance placement, and claims advisory for a variety of industries. These included large complex mining and infrastructure transactions, multi-country placements, supplier credit and bank financing arrangements, and capital market securitizations. Julie has worked extensively with both public and private political risk underwriters in manuscripting policy wording to address complex risks and exposures.

Julie joined Marsh in 2001 after 20 years of experience in the political risk business at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. government agency charged with promoting U.S. investment in emerging markets. At OPIC, Julie served in a variety of positions, including chief underwriter and head of the political risk insurance department. She was responsible for many of the initiatives by OPIC in the political risk area including development of programs for institutional lenders and the capital markets. During this time, Julie underwrote or managed the issuance of several hundred political risk policies for both large and small businesses in all parts of the emerging markets and developing world across many lines of industry and services. Julie Martin has a MBA in Finance from George Washington University, MS Foreign Service from Georgetown, and BGS in International Relations from Texas Tech University.

Rod Morris

Rod Morris is the Vice President in charge of the Political Risk Insurance program for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, an independent and self-sustaining agency of the US government dedicated to the development of foreign emerging markets. He first came to OPIC in 2000 after having served as a Senior Vice President at CNA Insurance Company in charge of a wide variety of products and operating divisions including International Property & Casualty, Risk Management, Personal Lines, Residual & Distressed Markets as well as the multi-line Branch offices in Omaha and Phoenix. He has also served as the chief regulator for the captive insurance program in Arizona and has authored a number of articles and training texts on Property & Casualty underwriting and Captive Insurance. Mr. Morris has served on the Board of Directors of the Illinois and Chicago chapters of the American Cancer Society, a captive Risk Retention Group and has been a member of the United Nation’s Expert Group on Public/Private Risk Sharing.

Felton “Mac” Johnston

Felton (Mac) Johnston is the Adviser for Political Risk and Arbitration to robert wray PLLC. Mr. Johnston has been involved in political risk mitigation for over 30 years. As Vice President for Insurance of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for 13 years, he had principal responsibility for OPIC's fast-growing and highly profitable insurance operations, including business production, underwriting and portfolio management, reinsurance negotiations, and product and program development. He had policy responsibility for OPIC's claims decisions, and was also a member of OPIC's senior management committee that considers large financing and insurance proposals. Mr. Johnston has extensive experience in political risk mitigation, international banking and project finance. His clients have included OPIC, the World Bank, the World Bank-affiliated Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, U. S. Eximbank, the Government of the Philippines, several private political risk insurers and numerous investors in oil and gas, power, mining, transportation, construction, entertainment and other sectors. He has also served as an expert adviser and witness in political risk insurance arbitrations and judicial proceedings. Mr. Johnston is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate University and has an MA degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

James Bond

James Bond, a French national, joined the World Bank Group in 1986. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer of MIGA in March 2008. James has served in numerous managerial positions at the World Bank. Prior to joining MIGA in 2008, James was the Bank’s Country Director for several francophone countries in West Africa. During this time, the World Bank provided assistance to Côte d´Ivoire in bringing that country’s internal conflict to an end, and financed the demobilization of combatants, emergency reconstruction, and a major sovereign debt workout. James was also based in Antananarivo, Madagascar, as the Country Director covering the countries of the Indian Ocean. Before this, he was Director of Agriculture, Rural Development, Environment and Social Development for the Africa Region, as well as Director of Energy, Mining and Telecommunications for the entire World Bank. At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, James was Director of the Mining Department, and was on the Board of the Escondida copper development in Chile. During his tenure a number of important mining projects were financed by IFC, including the privatization of the copper industry in Zambia. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Bond spent ten years with Total, the French oil and gas company, and also worked for Goldfields, a South African mining company. Mr. Bond holds a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a graduate degree in energy economics and finance from the French engineering school ENSPM, and a doctorate in economics from the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris.

Barker Keith

Barker has been involved in all aspects of Sovereign’s legal and underwriting work, including project reviews, due diligence, policy negotiations, country analysis, claims/recovery work and Spanish translation since 2002. Barker joined Sovereign from Shearman & Sterling where he practiced corporate and securities law in its New York, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi offices from 1997 to 2002. While at Shearman & Sterling, Barker represented banks and corporations in a variety of cross-border project finance, capital markets and restructuring transactions.

Barker is qualified to practice law in New York, England and Wales. He has a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, a M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A. in International Studies from American University. Prior to law school, Barker was an active duty U.S. Army officer for 5 years. Barker grew up in Venezuela and has attended universities in Argentina and Spain.

Moderator: Professor Jonathan Brookfield

Professor Jonathan Brookfield has been Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, Management Department (2002-2006); Has taught at Chengchi University, Department of Business Administration and has served as both a teaching and research assistant, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Member, Academy of Management and Academy of International Business; Review for AIB (2003-2005) and AOM (2003 and 2005); Has served as an ad hoc reviewer for a variety of journals including: Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He has a BS from Yale, a Masters from Cambridge and a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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