The Political Risk Podcast is an independent podcast, focused on geopolitical risk, for decision makers in specialty insurance markets, reinsurance and beyond. Listen through the website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. Hit follow to stay in the loop about new episodes, teasers and news!
The exclusive guest list uniquely mixes the C-suite, senior brokers and underwriters from the world of specialty insurance markets, with external geopolitical risk expertise from authors, academics, diplomats and analysts. The aim is to provide market-leading analysis and thought leadership insights for specialty insurance decision-makers and risk professionals, into the volatile global geopolitical risk landscape, primarily angled towards these classes of specialty insurance business:
• Political Risk Insurance and CPRI
• War Risk, Political Violence and Terrorism
• Strikes, Riots and Civil Commotion
• Other geopolitically exposed classes and malicious risk perils
The Host: David Benyon
David Benyon is founder-editor of The Political Risk Podcast and its sister title The Cyber Insurance Podcast. He is also the editor of GlobalRe and chairs its annual DWIC event in Dubai. David is an officer in the UK's Royal Navy Reserve, with 16 years' reservist experience and two full-time operational deployments to the Middle East as an Information Warfare Maritime Trade Operations specialist.
Previous B2B editor roles include Strategic Risk, Airmic News and Reactions, and he has written for many risk and re/insurance trades in nearly 20 years of trade financial journalism. He began his journalism at the advent of the global financial crisis, covering operational risk, corporate governance and regulatory developments in the banking world for OpRisk and Risk.net. He holds a BA-Joint Hon's in War Studies & History, and an MA in British Imperial History, both from King’s College, London.
Podcast Credits
Host: David Benyon
Music: Lawrence Durkin
Production: Peter Magill & Ned Sedgwick
Design: Richard Taylor
Website: Emma Benyon