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Jardine Lloyd Thompson Limited has brought together an eclectic panel of experts to provide expert advice on the compilation of the ‘Country Ratings' and ensure that these reflect the complexity and speed of international political and economic developments. The range and complementary nature of their knowledge and perspective adds depth and dynamism to our analysis

Guy Longueville is Chief Economist in charge of country risk for BNP Paribas and BNP, a position he has held since 1994. He is President of a think tank on globalisation at the Montaigne Institute, Paris and a Board Director of the French association of corporate economists (AFEDE).

Guy publishes regular reviews on the financial activity of companies, the European Union, the French economic situation, the evolution of emerging countries and country risk the and methodology of assessing country risk, in various financial and economic medias. He has a Master Degree in Economical and Social Sciences and has taught micro and macro economic in ENS, CNAM and University.

Joel Kibazo, from Uganda, is an independent Media and Public Affairs consultant. He was Director of Communications & Public Affairs, and spokesperson of the London based Commonwealth Secretariat until December 2006. Joel joined the Secretariat in 2000 after more than a decade as a journalist at the Financial Times where he reported regularly on African business, finance and economic issues. He has written and presented several radio documentaries for the BBC World Service, Radio Four and also made programmes for television.

Joel holds degrees in economics from the universities of Sunderland and Reading and an MBA from the University of Bradford.

Darko Kulas leads Corporate Communications at SBM Offshore in Monaco, the largest provider of products, vessels and production systems and services for the global offshore energy industry. Darko directs external communications and country risk in SBM's core areas of Brazil, West Africa and SE Asia as well as in new ventures. Darko joined SBM Offshore after spending 12 years with Petro-Canada's international and offshore division in London where he led government relations and risk issue management in North Africa and the Middle East. He has 15 years experience in the political risk field and has also published energy and foreign policy analysis with the Fraser Institute and with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs while posted in Ottawa and Washington DC. Darko has an MBA from the Haskayne School of Business and has taught both political risk at Vysoka Skola Ekonomicka in Prague and corporate reputational risk at the University of Calgary.

Iain Mathewson CMG is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House's International Security Programme. He advises Citigroup on political risk in the emerging markets and Detica on their overseas market, as well as acting as a non-executive director of Candole Partners in Prague. Iain draws on a 25-year career in the British Foreign Service in which central and eastern Europe played an important part. He served in Warsaw in the late 1980s and in Prague in the mid 1990s. Iain graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and worked in British government service from 1974 to 2006.

Alexander Neill is Head of the Asia Security Programme at RUSI. Alex leads research projects and hosts private discussion meetings and public conferences on all aspects of Asian defense and security issues. Alex is the Managing Editor of the Chinese Military Update (CMU), a periodical aimed at examining Chinese military modernization. He is also responsible for commenting in the media on behalf of RUSI on Asian affairs, and has recently contributed interviews to BBC News 24 and the Japanese television Channel NHK. Prior to joining RUSI, Alex was a political and security analyst for the British government and spent three and a half years with the British Embassy in Washington DC.

Dr Robin Niblett is Director of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs). Before joining Chatham House, Robin was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Washington based Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), one of America's largest and most influential foreign policy think tanks.

Robin's principal substantive interests are European integration and transatlantic relations. He is the author or contributor to a number of CSIS reports, including The Atlantic Alliance Transformed (CSIS, 1992) and From Shadows to Substance (CSIS, 1995). He is contributing author and co-editor with William Wallace of Rethinking European Order (Palgrave, 2001). More recently he edited and contributed to Test of Will, Tests of Efficacy (CSIS, 2005).

Christine Shields is Head of Country Risk Research, Standard Chartered Bank's Global Research team.

Christine joined SCB in 2006 after spending 19 years at Royal Bank of Scotland where she also headed up Country Risk within the Global Banking and Markets division. Previously, she worked in Group Economics, covering emerging markets research, after previously covering macroeconomics and markets for the UK, USA, Japan and Europe. Her principal focus remains Asia, where she has traveled extensively.

Jonathan Steele is the Guardian's Senior Foreign Correspondent and its main in-house International Affairs Commentator. He has served as the paper's Washington bureau chief (1975 to 1979) and its Moscow Bureau Chief (1988 to 1994). In recent years he has specialised in the Middle East and West Asia, covering the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. He has twice won the International Reporter of the Year title in the British Press awards, and is the author of several books on foreign affairs, including South Africa, Germany, and the Soviet Union/Russia. His latest book DEFEAT: Why they lost Iraq was published by I.B. Tauris in January 2008.

David Steven is a non-resident fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, where he works on scarcity, security and global public goods. He is a Demos associate, directing a programme on the changing nature of influence in 21st century diplomacy, and a senior adviser to the environmental think tank E3G, where he is working on the climate change global deal. He consults through River Path Associates and publishes regularly on a range of global issues.

Martin Stone heads The Risk Advisory Group's Middle East and North Africa practice. He joined the company in October 2006 from Aon Limited, where he was a director of their Professional Risks and Special Risks divisions.

Martin has previously held the positions of Head of Country and Political Risk at Deloitte & Touche and Head of Research at Control Risk. Martin has spoken on political risk, terrorism and all aspects of crisis management to business and academic audiences around the world. Columbia University Press published his book on the politics and sociology of Algeria in 1997 and he has contributed numerous articles on political risk and terrorism to a wide variety of business-focused publications. He has previously lived and worked in Egypt.

Daniel Wagner is Managing Director of Country Risk Solutions and has more than 20 years of experience managing country risk. He is an authority on political risk insurance (PRI) and analysis and has 15 years of underwriting experience with four AAA-rated organizations (AIG, the Asian Development Bank, GE, and the World Bank Group).

Daniel wrote the definitive book on Political Risk Insurance and has published more than 50 articles on risk management, PRI, terrorism, and related subjects. His editorials have been published in such notable newspapers as the International Herald Tribune and the Wall Street Journal.

He holds master's degrees in International Relations from the University of Chicago and in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Phoenix.