Specialist Consultancies
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Companies in this category tend to focus on a single region or specialized topic within country risk. Some are startups but others are well-respected and have been around for quite some time.
Axco
Axco's Global Insurance Guide contains a bit of perfunctory background information on politics, the economy, and so on, for 140 countries, probably cribbed from the CIA factbook or a similar source. But where Axco shines is insurance: everything a risk...
Carnelian International
A strange outfit with a slick but typo'd website, offering everything from "behavioural science analysis" to "conflict resolution" and "highly trained chaffeur drivers." Some of their services seem to be political risk, though the terminology is unusual and we hadn't...
Global Risk Analysis
Global Risk Analysis is an academic outfit with an excellent political risk resource web page. GRAI produces books on political risk as well as offering advisory services. http://www.grai.com...
Howell International
Howell International is the vehicle for one Lew Howell, a former Thunderbird business prof specializing in political risk. Known for his Handbook of Country and Political Risk Analysis. http://www.political-risk.net...
MacIvor Grant
MacIvor Grant runs things on a bit of a shoestring but has been around a good long time. The company does bespoke political risk analysis, as well as a service for monitoring pressure groups/NGOs. They've had good relationships with some...
Marvin Zonis
Need a speaker on world affairs for that crucial client conference? Here's your man. Attendees at Accenture's annual energy conference ranked Marvin Zonis "second only to Margaret Thatcher" in his speaking performance. Zonis has testified before committees of the U.S....
Mediterranean Energy Political Risk Consultancy
The energy industry has long had the habit of building expensive, immobile edifices in politically unstable places and suffering severe losses as a result. This misfortune attracts political risk consultants like vultures to carrion. One example is this Dutch outfit,...
Menas Associates
A UK-based group with a focus on Africa and the Middle East, providing newsletters on a few countries and bespoke reports on other emerging markets. http://www.menas.co.uk...
Moorgate Group
A newish but well-connected and fearsomely credentialled London group with a focus on debt markets. The main line of business is providing highly specialized marketing and PR advice, specifically to companies and governments in the debt markets and project and...
PRIMA
PRIMA is the brainchild of two academics, who have dramatically advanced the theory of political risk analysis in recent years. This is saying something, since the academic study of political risk has been generally stagnant since the 1980s. Their work...
PolicyFutures
PolicyFutures® sits somewhere on the margins between political risk and the wider world of regulatory risk. The company peddles a software tool that facilitates "policy mapping" -- forecasting the feasibility and durability of government policy changes. Some of their cases...
Political and Economic Risk Consultancy
Despite the entry-level website, this outfit has been around for years. PERC is Hong Kong based and does only Asia, offering bespoke country reports. Essentially a vehicle for the work of one Robert Broadfoot, a respected Asia analyst. http://www.asiarisk.com...
Summit Analytical Associates
Summit Analytical Associates started with a Latin America focus but has widened a bit. SAA writes bespoke country and political risk reports targeted at direct investors. http://www.s2a.com...
