LSE Crossfire event

Corporate Risk: doing business in emerging market economies

LSE Crossfire members and friends met at LSE's New Academic Building to host Dana Denis-Smith, the MD and founder of Marker Global – a risk consultancy focused on emerging markets. Dana completed her BSc and MSc at the LSE and subsequently joined The Economist Intelligence Unit, Reuters and the BBC, before embarking on a legal career at Linklaters, in London. She left Linklaters to start Marker Global and is the firm's current Managing Director.

The lecture explored the various types of risk which investors need to consider when doing business in emerging markets – with a focus on corporate transactions – and also shed light on the risk consulting sector itself. Among other things, the lecture explored the competitive landscape in various types of risk consulting and the different dynamics of specific emerging markets.

The event was hosted by Alberto Lidji, President of LSE Crossfire, who said: 'I was delighted to see participation from a cross section of academic and business interests at the event, ranging from financial analysis and economics, to political studies and investigative journalism'.

A Q&A session followed the lecture, with interesting questions revolving around emerging market investments, political lobbying, development and risk, electoral reform and risk, and the entrepreneurial opportunities within the risk consulting sector.

To find out more about LSE Crossfire, please see http://www.lsecrossfire.org/.