David Worsfold

Ukrainian insurers are looking to expand war risks cover for businesses following the announcement of a new €110m (£91m) reinsurance facility last week, put

Giving children a voice is at the heart of a haunting display of global violence and its impact on the youngest victims – and their “suffering goes to the very heart of our humanity” says award-winning war artist Arabella Dorman. An internationally…

War artist Arabella Dorman called for more to be done to protect children caught up in war and conflict when she launched her exhibition ‘Child of War’ at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London this week. Her powerful images, together with…

Interview: Ukrainian insurance broker Alina Golubieva talks to David Worsfold about the current challenges of insuring businesses and homes in the country, plus how the market is preparing to align itself with European Union regulation. The…

Two years since bombs and missiles started raining down on Ukraine and we are still waking up to reports of yet another bombardment of Ukrainian cities. People talk about the western democracies wearying as the war enters its third year. Think about…

Two years on from Russia invading Ukraine, David Worsfold examines the ongoing impact of the war on global insurance markets. A feeling of stalemate pervades the war in Ukraine as it drags on into its third year. While the military strategists on…

This is the year of the ballot box. Over 40 national elections involving a potential 60 billion voters going to the polls are due to take place this year. They could leave the world looking rather different by the end of the year. The potential of…

From David Worsfold, AEJ UK Treasurer, at the AEJ International Congress 2023 The promised session in the International AEJ Congress programme offering fresh insight into the progress and prospects for the war in Ukraine lived up to expectations when…

This is what a brave man looks like. This is Ilya Ponomarev. He was the only member of the Duma (Russian parliament) to vote against the annexation of Crimea…

Geopolitical risk is firmly back on the agenda for insurers. If you asked any senior business leader a decade ago how they managed major geopolitical risks, they might have talked about horizon scanning but the feeling was always that these risks…

The tension between affordability, security and sustainability in the current environment has been coined the 'energy trilemma'. Over the last decade the emphasis in energy policy in developed economies has been firmly focussed on transition to…

Sport has an uneasy relationship with politics. Those who run international sport live in a bubble in which they convince themselves that sport stands above conflict, tyranny and appalling human rights abuses. On the one hand, they refuse to…

Major financial firms have always been reluctant to talk about geo-political risks, at least publicly. They have been comfortable in a globalised world where the growth of international trade and cross-border investment made the deep political…

The Association of European Journalists seminar on media freedom and the implications of the war in Ukraine held in the European Parliament on 16 June was a real eye opener for a Brit expecting to spend most of his time apologising for the mess his…

Losses from major disturbances in Chile, South Africa and the USA — especially in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in 2020 and the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington by disaffected Trump supporters in January…

The UK, European Union and USA might not be directly involved in the war on the ground in Ukraine or in the air over its shattered, beleaguered cities, but we are on the frontline in a new type of hybrid warfare. There is the war being fought with…

Leading ratings agencies have moved quickly to publish reassuring assessments of the implications of the war in Ukraine on the insurance industry. AM Best, Fitch and S&P have all issued a series of bulletins analysing the potential impacts of the war…