Managing risks to economic and political stability in both developed and developing economies is forcing businesses and governments to reassess their ideas about risk and stability.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies’ (IISS) Geo-Economics Programme is convening a high-level workshop in New York City to offer new perspectives on the complexities of measuring and managing the relationship between economic security and political risk with three current and distinct themes analyzed by senior IISS experts: Political and Business Risk in Asia; Business and Cyber Security; and Energy Security in the Middle East and Eurasia.
“Headquartered in London but with centres in Washington DC, Singapore and Bahrain, the IISS is uniquely qualified, as a truly global think tank, to bring together prominent experts, policymakers, and business leaders to examine how these themes affect investment and policy decisions and how business and governments can develop strategies that combine geo-economic and political risk management. The workshop is organized by the Institute’s Geo-economics and Strategy Programme,” the director of the programme, Dr Sanjaya Baru, a former business and economics editor and official spokesman and media advisor to the Prime Minister of India, said.
Among the other senior IISS experts presenting are Nigel Inkster, Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk, IISS, and former Assistant Chief and Director for Operations and Intelligence of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6); Christian Le Mière, Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security, IISS, and former editor of Jane’s Intelligence Review and Jane’s Intelligence Weekly; and Emile Hokayem, Senior Fellow for Regional Security, IISS-Middle East, and author of Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant, published by the IISS and Routledge in June 2013.
At the conclusion of the workshop, select reports will be published in a range of IISS publications and all the papers will be available on the IISS website: www.iiss.org. Papers to be published include: Energy and Economic Insecurity: The Middle East and Russia/Eurasia, The Risks Challenging the China Dream and Asia Pacific Security, and The Private Sector in International Cyber Security.