Careers Week: A Day in the Life of a Political Risk Analyst

***Some pre-workshop reading will be required *** 

Charles Hecker 
Charles Hecker is a partner at Control Risks. Charles has worked there for more than 20 years; eight of those were spent as the managing partner of the company’s Moscow office. He has an undergraduate degree in Soviet Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters Degree from the Russian Research Center, now called the Davis Center, at Harvard University.  

Oksana Antonenko 
Oksana Antonenko is a Director at the EMEA Global Risk Analysis Team.  Her work focuses on advising clients on political risk,  geopolitical and political economy trends in Europe and Eurasia.  Prior to Joining Control Risks in 2018,  Oksana was a Senior Political Counsellor at the European bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Head of Russia and Eurasia Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.  Oksana is currently a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute in the United States.  Oksana is a graduate of Harvard University, John F Kennedy School of Government (Public Policy) and Moscow State University (Political Economy).  She was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Control Risks is a specialist, global risk advisory firm with more than 40 years of experience in analysing and managing risk in over 170 countries around the world.