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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!!!!!!
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