Meet the Experts

John W. Miller (JM) is a writer and filmmaker from Brussels. He is currently working on his first book, The Last Manager (Avid Reader/Simon&Schuster), about Earl Weaver and the role of the baseball manager. He is the co-director of the 2020 PBS film Moundsville, and creator of the Moundsville online magazine. From 2004 to 2016, he was a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal, covering European economic, global trade, global mining, and occasional events like the World Cup and Tour de France. He is a contributing writer at America, the Jesuit Review, and Chief Economic Analyst of Trade Data Monitor, the world’s premier source of trade statistics.

Robert Besseling (RB) founded specialist intelligence company EXX Africa in 2015, after pursuing a decade-long career in political risk forecasting at industryleading firms in the UK and US. In late 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, EXX Africa was rebranded as Pangea-Risk to cover 68 African and Middle East countries.

At Pangea-Risk, Robert leads a team of partners, researchers, and contributing analysts to produce commercially relevant and actionable analysis on political, security, and economic risk in Africa and the Middle East. Robert also retains the lead on many consulting projects for blue chip corporations in a wide variety of sectors.