Garant Business Seminar
In the spirit of Risk-Community, the Garant Business Seminar will provide a space to bring our customers, partners and experts together to talk about key issues on credit and political risk insurance to further knowledge on this specific field of insurance activities and sharing ideas on the future of the market.
Year 2010
Programme
Political Risk Insurance market in 2010
Thursday 3 June 2010 - Hotel Kempinski-Geneva
| 14:45 / 15:30 |
Garant: Strategy of a specialist insurer Louis Habib-Deloncle, Chairman Walter Blom, Member of the Managing Board |
| 15:30 / 16:05 |
Reinsurance market trends in the wake of the global financial crisis Mark Jenkins, Executive Director, Willis Re |
| 16:05 / 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 / 17:30 |
A regional focus: "The regional balance of powers: Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Arab World" Bernard Hourcade, Director of research, CNRS Discussion |
| 16:30 / 17:30 |
A regional focus: "The regional balance of powers: Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Arab World" Bernard Hourcade, Director of research, CNRS Discussion |
| 17:30 | Chairman’s closing remarks and Cocktail reception |
About the speakers
Mark Jenkins, Executive Director, Willis Re
Mark Jenkins joined Willis' Reinsurance Division in 1977. He has 30 years of experience in handling Reinsurance treaties, including Credit and Political Risk, mainly for clients based in Continental Europe. During his career, Mark worked for 4 years on the Continent, from 1985 to 1989 responsible for the Retrocession, Marine and all classes of Facultative accounts in Willis' Brussels office.
For the past 12 years Mark has progressively become more involved in Credit, Surety and Political Risk business, and is now totally dedicated to this class. Mark handles some of the largest programmes in the world, in the UK, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia and Japan.
Within Willis Re he is responsible for the development of the class world-wide ex USA, and is leader of the Credit Surety and Political Risk Practice.
Bernard Hourcade, Geographer, CNRS
Born in 1946, Bernard Hourcade is a geographer, senior research fellow at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris): “Mondes Iranien et Indien” (Iranian and Indian Worlds). During the period 1978-1993, he was Director of the French Institute of Iranian Studies (IFRI) in Tehran. Then, he founded and managed the research team “Mondes Iranien” (CNRS, University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Inalco, EPHE) until 2005.
As resident in Iran, or through yearly research trips in Iran since 1970, Bernard Hourcade has conducted numerous academic researches in social, cultural and political geography of Iran, and on urban Iranian society, in collaboration with Iranian academic institutions and scholars. He works also as a consultant on Iran for public French and international public institutions, for think tanks, and private companies.
Last publications on Iran :
Books
Forthcoming May 2010: Géopolitique de l’Iran. Paris A. Colin.
- Tehran Alborz. Mashhad, 1388/2009. [Essays translated into Persian)
- L’Iran au XXe siècle. Paris, Fayard, New ed. 2007. (coll. JP Digard et Y Richard)
- Atlas of Tehran Metropolis. Tehran Geographic Information Center, 2005 (Coll. M. Habibi).
- Iran. Nouvelles identités d’une république. Paris, Belin, 2002.
Articles
« Iran : la difficile marche vers la démocratie », Différences, (Revue du MRAP), 273, 2010, pp. 21-23.
« The Rise to Power of Iran's "Guardians of the Revolution" Middle East Policy, .XVI, 2, 2009.
« L’Iran face au défi de l’ouverture internationale ». Moyen Orient, 1, 2009, pp. 12-17.
Contact :
Mondes Iranien et Indien, CNRS, 27, rue Paul Bert, F.94204 IVRY
Phone : (33) 01 49 60 41 65 (33) 6 70 12 38 16 Fax: (33) 01 45 21 94 19
hourcade@ivry.cnrs.fr
http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr