ASEC Executive & Advisory Council 

The Applied Services Economic Centre (ASEC) is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, as an affiliated organization of the Geneva Association, but operates out of both Geneva and the University of Guelph (close to Toronto) where its Program of Research on Systemic Risks and Vulnerabilities (PROSERV) is currently based.

Its two Executive Directors are Patrick M. Liedtke, Secretary-General and Managing Director of the Geneva Association and Professor R. Brian Woodrow, University of Guelph, Canada. Both are jointly responsible for the direction and operation of ASEC and its ongoing activities. In addition. ASEC is guided in its evolving direction and activities by an ASEC Council of prominent individuals with broad experience and expertise within the world of services and economic/social research.

ASEC Executive (Co-Directors)

Patrick Liedtke,
Secretary-General & Managing Director,
The Geneva Association,
Geneva, Switzerland
 

Born in 1966 in Frankfurt/Main (Germany), married, four children. Finished his schooling 1985 in Madrid (Spain), university studies of Electrical Engineering at the University of Darmstadt (Germany) and Economics at the University of Darmstadt (Germany) and the London School of Economics (England). European capital markets and economics research, European Equities Research, SG Warburg, London (England). Then economic research on employment and economics as Head of Project for a Report to the Club of Rome, Bilbao (Spain). From 1996 to 1998, Director of the Independent Macroeconomic Research Bureau, Frankfurt (Germany), specialising in labour, pensions and insurance economics. From 1996 to 1998, collaborating with the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association), Geneva (Switzerland). From 1998 to 2000, Deputy and Vice-Secretary General of The Geneva Association; since January 2001, Secretary General and Managing Director of The Geneva Association.

Also Surveillance Board Member of IT Future AG, Frankfurt; Surveillance Board Member of Zwiesel Kristallglas AG, Zwiesel; Executive Board Member of the Club of Rome; Director of the Applied Services Economic Centre (ASEC) in Geneva; Board Member of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE); Editor-in-Chief of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice, published in London; Editor of the Newsletter on Insurance and Finance, published in Geneva. Member of the Advisory Committee of the Wharton School’s Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes (WCRMDP) in Pennsylvania, of the International Advisory Board of the China Center for Insurance and Social Security in Beijing, and of several other expert groups.

R. Brian Woodrow,                                  
Professor of Political Science,                                        
University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario, Canada 

                                                                                                               
Professor Brian Woodrow has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph for more than 30 years and, in one capacity or another, has been associated with ASEC since the late 1980’s. Educated at the University of Toronto where he obtained a Ph.D in Political Economy, he continues to teach graduate and undergraduate courses at Guelph in international political economy, Canadian government and public policy. Through ASEC, he has carried out research and studies on the evolution of the ‘services economy’, on trade in financial services, especially insurance, and most recently on vulnerability analysis and assessment. Currently, he is primarily responsible for directing ASEC’s Program of Research on Systemic Risks and Vulnerabilities (PROSERV).    

ASEC Council

Coming soon!!!!!!