Remarks · Administration
Black at Tulane Law: political risk insurance as the mobilization lever.
On a panel with State and Energy alongside J.P. Morgan and Covington, the DFC CEO walks through how political risk insurance turns volatile terrain into investable terrain.
Think of us as America's international deal team. One of our most powerful tools is Political Risk Insurance. When a country or a dynamic is too volatile for an investment, in terms of potential asset seizure or regulatory changes, DFC will write Political Risk Insurance. It''s an incredibly important way to mobilize investment by the private sector into these countries.
The Tulane panel is the doctrine illustrated in the room. State, Energy, DFC. J.P. Morgan and Covington beside them. Public authority, capital, and legal architecture sitting at the same table. That is the doctrine''s tripartite coalition rendered as a working group.
Political risk insurance is the precise mechanism by which U.S. legal architecture backstops private capital on contested ground. Black names it as the most powerful tool in the kit. Capital that would not otherwise make the trip becomes commercially viable when the political risk is priced and underwritten by the United States. That is the lever that makes the rest of the doctrine move.