Enquirisk in Durham, UK

Dr Carlo Gallo, Manager of Enquirisk, is very grateful to Durham University and to the Global Policy Journal for hosting him to deliver a lecture on Political Risk and Business Intelligence to a room full of smart and motivated students, in March 2016. The following day, it was great fun to be interviewed by a very competent team for a video recording for the Journal.

In the talk and interview, he touched upon such issues as:

• Definitions of political risk as an area of business risk consulting;

• Prevailing methods and techniques for producing and delivering consulting in this area, including recent tool relying algorithms for real-time event data extraction fro open sources.

• The type of business functions and purposes that political risk consulting can help with;

• Methodological challenges involved in political risk analysis;

• The relationship with academic theories on related areas (e.g. conflict studies, international relations, political science, etc.), or the theory v practice gap.

• Current trends in the (geo)political risks confronting business around the globe.

• The skills and experience required to be a political risk analyst.

Enquirisk is very grateful for the opportunity and looks forward to the next chance to collaborate and/or visit Durham University.