Daniel WagnerDaniel Wagner is the founder and CEO of Country Risk Solutions and has three decades of experience managing cross-border risk in the private and public sectors.Daniel began his career at AIG in New York and then spent five years as Guarantee Officer for the Asia Region at the World Bank Group's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency in Washington, DC. After serving as Regional Manager for Political Risks for Southeast Asia and Greater China for AIG in Singapore, Daniel moved to Manila, where he served in several capacities in the Asian Development Bank's Office of Co-financing Operations. He then became Senior Vice President of Country Risk at GE Energy Financial Services.Daniel has published 600+ articles on current affairs and risk management and is a regular contributor to the South China Morning Post, Sunday Guardian, and The National Interest, among many others. He is also the author of four previous books-Virtual Terror, Global Risk Agility and Decision-Making, Managing Country Risk, and Political Risk Insurance Guide.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. Daniel received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from Richmond College in London.

Keith FurstKeith Furst is the Managing Director of Data Derivatives, a consulting firm focused on implementing, validating, and fine-tuning financial crime systems. He has many years of extensive consulting experience working for a wide variety of financial institutions focusing on the documentation, design, model development, implementation, calibration, and validation of financial crime systems. Keith has broad exposure and hands-on involvement in all phases of the project life cycle for transaction monitoring, know your customer, customer due diligence, sanctions, trade compliance, and anti-fraud systems. He has worked for banks in New York City under extreme regulatory scrutiny.He writes thought pieces frequently and has been published in the American Banker, The Asian Banker, the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and The South China Morning Post on a diverse range of intricate topics such as financial crime, artificial intelligence, and risk management.Keith holds an MBA from the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business and a BA in Philosophy from Queens College, both in New York.