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February 8 – 10, 2021

25^th annual Coface Country Risk Conference - A 100% digital event

EMBRACING NEW BUSINESS RISKS IN A

POST-COVID WORLD

2020 played host to an unprecedented health crisis, economic tensions that governments are still trying to manage, and numerous complications for businesses across the world. At our Country Risk Conference, we examine the challenges facing us in the coming months, in terms of both country and sector risks.

Alongside Coface's economists, experts from the world of business, finance, and economics will decipher major global economic issues, and assess their potential impact on companies around the world.

3 VIRTUAL ROUND TABLES OVER 3 DAYS, FEATURING EXPERTS AND COFACE

ECONOMISTS WHO WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS LIVE.

Registration

Monday 08 February 2021

02:00 PM

From industrial globalisation to a globalisation of services?

The lockdowns implemented to limit the spread of the pandemic have disrupted companies’ supply chains, pushing them to examine the risks linked to the globalisation of industry. But this crisis will also have lasting effects on how companies function (notably the use of teleworking), which could encourage an increased globalization of services. Most services have long been considered as unchangeable, as they required physical proximity between businesses and their customers. International trade in services was therefore almost exclusively composed of activities based on geographical distance (transport of goods or people, tourism). But the development of new communication tools, especially the internet, has reduced this natural barrier for many activities. The current mobility crisis could accelerate this change in many sectors and countries.

Speakers:
Bruno BERTHON, Senior Managing Director Accenture Strategy, Accenture
Isabelle MEJEAN, Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, researcher at CREST and member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique, Universitaire Prize for the best young economist
Corinne VADCAR, Senior Trade Analyst, Chambre de commerce et d'industrie d'Ile-de-France

Tuesday 09 February 2021

02:00 PM

The marriage between the state and the economy in Europe: for better or for worse?

Governments and the European Union implemented a range of measures to help European businesses and households face the economic consequences of COVID-19: guaranteed loans, furloughs, tax & social charge deferrals, targeted aids for struggling strategic sectors and companies... Will this support continue in 2021? What needs do they address? Do they mark a return of the centralized strategic/planning state? How should national governments and the EU share out their roles? What are their short- and medium-term effects on companies? Will their increased indebtedness limit their future growth? Will these public interventions accelerate the "Japanization" of European economies? Or will they allow new regional champions to emerge?

Speakers:
Maya ATIG, CEO, Fédération Bancaire Française et Association Française des Banques
Herr Prof. HUTHER, economist, director of the Institute, The Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft
Pablo de RAMON-LACA, Director General of the Treasury and Financial Policy, General Secretariat of the Treasury and International Finance, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain

Wednesday 10 February 2021

02:00 PM

Coface Economic outlook

Speakers:
Julien MARCILLY, Chief Economist, Coface and his team

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Thierry Arnaud

Managing editor of BFM Business - Host of CRC 2021

BFM Business

Thierry Arnaud is the Managing Editor of BFM Business, France’s leading business news network, a role that he has occupied since June 1, 2019. Thierry joined BFMTV, BFM Business’s sister network, in 2006, as the United States Correspondent. In 2009, he was appointed Senior Political Correspondent.
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He has covered the French presidency and the 2012 France presidential campaign, before becoming Political Editor for the channel. In 2018, he became a senior political commentator for domestic and international affairs. He was a regular, and is still an occasional, anchor for BFMTV.

Thierry started his career with French business newspaper La Tribune, serving successively as London Correspondent, Deputy International Editor, US Correspondent, and Economics Editor.

Maya ATIG

CEO

Fédération Bancaire Française et Association Française des Banques

Maya Atig is Chief Executive Officer of the French Banking Federation since 30 March 2020. She is also Chief Executive Officer of the French Banking Association (AFB).
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Since 2016, she has been Deputy Managing Director of the National Federation of Crédit Agricole, in charge of finance and risk for the Regional Banks. She thus has concrete knowledge of the mechanisms of retail banking and the internal processes of a group present in many activities. Until 2016, Maya Atig worked at the General Directorate of the Treasury. She developed her expertise there on the entire banking, financial and insurance sector, and participated in the negotiation of numerous European texts (Solvency 2, Bank Capital Requirements, Collateral, Payment Services ...).

Between 2012 and 2016, she acquired operational market experience, as Deputy Director General of Agence France Trésor, in charge of debt and treasury management for the State.
Maya graduated from the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration in 1996, and from the National School of Administration in 2000 (promotion Averroès).

Bruno BERTHON

Senior Managing Director Accenture Strategy

Accenture

Bruno Berthon is Senior Managing Director with Accenture Strategy in charge of Accenture Strategy for Utilities globally (major global industry, $140M across 12 countries).
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Bruno previously ran Accenture Strategy for Europe ($800M, 300 MDs). He also launched and ran Digital Strategy globally. At the (re-)launch of Accenture Strategy, he ran the practice in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands (~$210M, 500+ consultants). He also created and led the Accenture Sustainability practice from 2007 to 2014.

He represented Accenture at the World Economic Forum in Davos on the topics of climate change and digital transformation, supported also the United Nations SE4All program and WBCSD initiatives. Bruno is a 10-year member of the SAP Sustainability Advisory Board.

Bruno graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris, has an MBA from INSEAD, a Master of Macroeconomics from La Sorbonne and a degree in Law. Bruno is also an active Business Angel and investor, a blogger @BFB61 with a focus on Digital and Sustainability and a Football coach.

Pablo de RAMON-LACA

Director General of the Treasury and Financial Policy, General Secretariat of the Treasury and International Finance

Ministère des affaires économiques et de la transformation numérique d'Espagne

Pablo was appointed Director General of the Treasury and Financial Policy in February 2020 at the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. He is also Chairman of the EFC’s Subcommittee on European Sovereign Debt Management (ESDM) since August 2019.

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Before his promotion to Director General, Pablo was Head of Funding and Debt Management at the Spanish Treasury since November 2013, a team he joined in September 2008. Before joining the Spanish Treasury, he worked as an economist in the Bank of England's Financial Crisis Management Department.
Pablo is a member of the High Corps of State Economists and Trade Experts, and he holds a BA (Hons) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Xavier Durand

CEO

Coface

Xavier Durand, CEO of Coface since February 2016, has more than 25 years’ experience in the regulated financial services industry in Europe, the US and Asia.
He started his career in 1987 in consultancy at The Mac Group (Gemini Consulting) before joining the GMF in 1991 and the Sovac Real Estate Bank in 1994 as Deputy CEO.
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In 1996, Xavier joined GE Capital, where he began an international career, first in Chicago as Director of Strategy and Growth of the finance division of the Global Auto business. He was appointed successively CEO of GE Money in France in 2002, in Europe in 2005, and of GE Capital’s banking activities in Europe, Russia and Turkey in 2009. In 2011, he was named CEO of GE Capital Asia Pacific, based in Japan. He was appointed GE Capital’s Director of Strategy and Growth, based in London, at the end of 2013.

Xavier has held Board and Board Committee positions in several large international banking and financial services businesses: Garanti Bank listed bank in Turkey; Kungsri Group listed bank in Thailand; Hyundai Capital in Korea; Axa France Vie and IARD; and WiZink Bank in Spain. He currently serves as Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of French listed ALD Automotive.

He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

Michael HÜTHER

Economist, director of the Institute

The Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft

Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther has been Director and Member of the Presidium of the German Economic Institute since July 2004. Since April 2019 Prof. Hüther is also chair of the supervisory board of TÜV Rheinland AG.
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Upon completion of his doctorate in economics, in 1991 he became a member of the scientific staff of the Council of Experts for the Evaluation of Macroeconomic Development. In 1995 he was appointed Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Advisers. In 1999, he joined DekaBank as chief economist and in 2001 additionally as Division Manger economics and communication.

Since August 2001 Prof. Hüther is Honorary Professor at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel.
In the academic year 2016-17 and in autumn 2019 he was Gerda Henkel Adjunct Professor in the Department of German Studies at Stanford University, CA, USA.

He studied from 1982 to 1987 economics as well as medieval and modern history at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen.

Enrico LETTA

Dean of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris - President of the Jacques Delors Institute

Sciences Po Paris

Enrico Letta has been the Dean of Sciences Po Paris’ School of International Affairs since 2015. In 2019, Enrico has been appointed President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA). He has also been the President of the Jacques Delors Institute since 2016.
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Between 2013 and 2014, Enrico was President of the Italian Council. From 2001 to 2015, Enrico Letta was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, with the exception of the 2004-2006 period, when he served as a Member of the European Parliament.

During his political career in Italy, Enrico Letta served as Minister for Community Policies (1998-1999), then Minister for Industry, Trade and Crafts (2000). He was also Minister for Industry and Foreign Trade (2000-2001), then Under-Secretary of State during the presidency of Romano Prodi (2006-2008).

Enrico Letta has a degree in International Law from the University of Pisa, and a doctorate in European Community Law from the Scuola Superiore Santa Anna di Pisa.

Julien MARCILLY

Chief Economist

Coface

Julien Marcilly has worked as Chief Economist at Coface since March 2015. Prior to this position, he has been the Deputy Chief Economist of Coface and Head of Country Risk at Coface since 2012. He joined Coface from New-York based asset management company, and was an economist with Société Générale prior to this.
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He has an extensive background in emerging markets, a PhD in financial economics from Paris-Dauphine University, and a Master in Management from ESCP Europe.

Isabelle MEJEAN

Professor of Economics in Ecole Polytechnique, member of the Research Center in Economics and Statistics and a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis

Universitaire Prix de la meilleure jeune économiste

Isabelle Mejean is full professor of Economics in Ecole Polytechnique, member of the Research Center in Economics and Statistics and a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis. Her research tackles international economic issues, with a particular emphasis on the macroeconomic consequences of heterogeneous firms in international markets.
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She has published her papers in scientific journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review or the Journal of International Economics.

In 2017, she received a grant from the European Research Council to work on the network structure of firm-to-firm relationships in international markets. In 2020, she received the prize for the best young economist awarded by Le Monde and Cercle des Economistes.

Corinne VADCAR

Senior Trade Analyst

Chambre de commerce et d'industrie d'Ile-de-France

For more than 25 years, Corinne Vadcar has been working at the nexus of business strategies, economic change and international geopolitics. She is currently Senior Analyst at Paris Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) after a position as Senior Trade Analyst in a former think tank (Institut Friedland).
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Her areas of expertise include global value chains and value creation strategies, and globalisation, international trade, and transport. Corinne focuses on new business strategies in the world (SMEs and multinationals), providing new firm-level evidence. She also teaches on geopolitical issues in international trade and transport at IRIS_SUP.

Previously, she was Project Manager for geo-economics issues in a Prime Minister's Office (SGDSN) and then in a Political Risk Insurance Organization (Unistrat) and, more recently, Head of the Department of International Business Studies at Paris CCI.

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For the past 25 years, Coface has welcomed companies to its flagship event on the evolution of country risks around the world. The Country Risk Conference aims to help international trade players – including company directors, commercial directors, credit managers, among others – to define an effective strategy for trade or investment development and to make fully-informed business decisions, whether in their own country or internationally.

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