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Robust Operational Risk Index
Updated quarterly, the BMI Risk Index covers 200+ markets and contains 90 input metrics, helping you evaluate and compare business environment risks and rank markets.
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Detailed reports on more than 90 markets to help inform expansion decisions and support ongoing risk assessments.
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Access to over 220,000 data lines across 205 countries and territories. Create charts and graphs using our Interactive Charts tool, or export directly into your workflow.
Global BMI Business Environment Report
Our annual view of global business environment risks, including profiles for key emerging and developed markets, along with global and regional rankings.
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BMI Operational Risk Index
Whether your business is already operating in a certain market, or looking to do so, we’ll help you understand the ease of doing business.
Our award-winning Operational Risk Index quantifies business environment risks, allowing clients to identify and compare where each market ranks regionally and globally, to support benchmarking and risk evaluation workflows.
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BMI provides research reports for over 90 countries
across four dimensions of risk
Crime, Defence & Security
Stay alert to the security threats to your staff and business operations that might stem from terrorism, political violence, war, and criminal activities, and understand each country’s capacity and ability to provide protection.
Education & Labour
Assess the availability and flexibility of skilled labour for your business, with comparisons of education systems, labour costs, demographics, employment rates and legislation, social security, public healthcare systems, and unionisation.
Logistics & Freight Transport
Understand the strengths and weaknesses of each country’s supply chain and transport and utilities infrastructure, revealing the implications for your business when manufacturing, distributing, or contracting services in different markets.
Trade & Investment Risk
Evaluate the trade policies and agreements, legal systems, and banking and taxation requirements that could impact your operations, helping you compare and prioritize the most attractive markets for investment.
BMI: Experts in Emerging & Frontier Markets
Our expertise is built on 40 years’ experience of analyzing political, economic, and operational risks in markets where high-quality information is hard to find and even harder to interpret.
Independent, unbiased views
Our commitment to independence, objectivity, and transparency is unshakeable. BMI's robust methodologies and impartial views ensure clients always have access to an accurate, unbiased assessment of the ease of doing business in each market.
In addition to BMI's Operational Risk Index covering 200+ markets, we provide deep Operational Risk insight reports for more than 90 countries and territories, with frequent, systematic updates.
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Connected Thinking
Our unique approach to operational risk analysis integrates deep industry expertise and cross-sector knowledge with detailed country risk research and political risk views.
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Access BMI’s critical Operational Risk insights and data via our Web research experience, API, or Excel Add-In. Whichever delivery method you choose, our expert onboarding and client success teams work with you to ensure your success in identifying and quantifying the business environment risks that could impact your operations.
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Chiedza Madzima
Head of Operational Risk Research
Chiedza leads Operational Risk and South Africa Research team at BMI. Her areas of specialisation are in economics, business environment risk analysis, policy risk and macro data analysis particularly for Emerging Markets. Chiedza holds two degrees from the University of Pretoria in South Africa: BSc Actuarial Mathematics and Financial Engineering; BCom Business Management and Economics. She has featured in various regional and global news publications, including Bloomberg, Quartz Africa, News24 and Africa Business Magazine.
Yoel Sano
Head of Geopolitical Risk, BMI
Yoel Sano, Director, Head of Geopolitical Risk, leads research for BMI Politics, BMI’s latest political risk service underpinned by GeoQuant. Prior to assuming this role in 2009, he was Head of Asia Country Risk at BMI, having joined the company in 2003. He specializes in international security risks, great power competition, domestic political and social transformation, and long-term forecasting. Yoel has a BA in Geography from Oxford University, and an MA in Theory and History of International Relations from the London School of Economics.
Cedric Chehab
Global Head of Country Risk
Cedric Chehab is Managing Director and Global Head of Country Risk at BMI, where he helps ensure the coherence of global macro and country risk strategy. Currently based in Toronto, Cedric previously served as Head of Asia Research, where he was responsible for all Asia-based country risk analysis and industry research. Before that he was Head of Americas Research, based in New York. From 2008 to 2010, Cedric worked in London as Head of Commodities Research and Strategy. He has also worked in management consulting at Accenture. Cedric holds an MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Essex.
Michelle Karavias
Managing Director, Industry Research
Michelle heads BMI’s industry research which spans more than 20 sectors. Michelle joined BMI in 2008, specialising in energy and infrastructure. In 2011 she relocated to New York to establish BMI’s Americas research team. Now based in London, Michelle drives BMI’s ‘connected thinking’ approach to analysing the impact of cross-sector themes such as energy transition and digital transformation. Michelle holds a bachelor’s 1st Class Honours degree in American Studies from the University of Nottingham, with International Study at the University of Toronto in Canada.
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