Scott Wilcox

Advisory

Political Risk and Market Entry. Washington DC and Dubai.

Scott Wilcox advises international investors, boards and family offices on entering and operating in complex markets: understanding the risks a market presents, deciding what is acceptable, transferring what is not through insurance and other structures, and building operational resilience across logistics, security, operations, and government and community relations. The advice comes from someone who has run the operation rather than modelled it.

What he advises on

• Entry, exit and continued operation in a market
• Which risks to accept, which to transfer, and how to structure the transfer
• People on the ground: moving them or keeping them in place
• Board liability, and whether D&O and other cover match the exposure
• Crisis plans, tested against what actually happens
• Partners, counterparties and what comes with them

Who he works with

• Boards and executive committees carrying a country or region decision
• Investors and investment committees pricing political and operational risk into a deal
• Family offices with people, property or holdings in exposed markets
• General counsel and heads of security who need an outside read on their own plan
• Brokers, underwriters and counsel who need a second opinion before advising their own client

Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Speaking

He speaks and moderates on geopolitical risk, crisis leadership and resilience, at conferences, closed board sessions and industry panels. Recent platforms include the OSAC MENA Regional Summit 2026 in Cairo, where he moderated “Gulf Risk, Perception, and the Case for Egypt” and joined the Market Re-entry Indicators panel, the American University of Sharjah, ASIS International, and broadcast interviews with MBN English, NewsNation and MIRA Business FM.