AKE - Security and political risk management

AKE Media and Press Centre

AKE is frequently called upon to act as a source for comment and analysis by various media companies. Drawing on the depth of expertise of the company's political and security risk experts and considerable experience in the provision of political and security risk consultancy services, AKE's experts are available for interview and comment 24 hours a day.

AKE's strength and creativity originates from the considerable skills and experience of its staff, who are drawn from many international professional backgrounds including the Special Forces, academia, the intelligence services, information technology, law enforcement, banking, insurance and medicine. This has proved to have been of immense benefit to the media offering real insight. Comment and analysis is the result of the synthesis of an incredibly diverse experience base and can be considered truly authoritative.

Insight is available on:

	Worldwide terrorist threats and remedial measures
	Risk management, crisis management and business continuity
	Political crises
	Maritime security
	Energy security
	Physical security and protection
	Employee training and duty of care
	Emergency evacuation
	Insurance
	Health and Medical Risks and Emergencies
	Political and security risks associated with: - Middle East and North Africa - Sub-Saharan Africa - The Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - Asia and Asia-Pacific - Latin America

Contact

UK:	Dan Smith: +44 (0) 207 816 5454 - dan.smith@akegroup.com
US:	Tim Crockett: +1 678-560-2336 - tim.crockett@akegroup.com
Asia-Pacific:	James Sammons: +61 (0)2 9025 3525 - james.sammons@akegroup.com

AKE Press Releases

external url 12/07/06	AKE Group Opens Atlanta Office
39.8kb	AKE Afghan Press Release 17/05/05

AKE in the News

AKE experts have been used by a large number of print, radio and television news media – for items of both domestic and international interest:

	2008
06/05/08	AKE’s Claire Fleming addresses the energy industry’s need to address the “waves of change”, the theme of OTC 08, in terms of security and risk mitigation. More >>
06/05/08	Senior Intelligence Analyst Claire Fleming writes for Energy on the wider security concerns raised by the February 2008 Safe Scandinavia scare. More >>
468kb 28/01/08	AKE's intelligence analyst Amy Clarke writes in Lloyd's Market
	2007
21/11/07	James McLeod-Hatch spoke to ABC Radio about civilian casualties following comments made by UN High Commissioner Louise Arbour.
975kb 30/10/07	AKE's intelligence analyst Amy Clarke writes in Lloyd's Market, Issue Four 2007
external url 30/10/07 975kb 30/10/07	AKE's senior intelligence analyst Nadina Bernecker advises London's underwriters on the difficulties facing Nigeria. Lloyd's Market, Issue Four 2007. More >>
external url 22/10/07	AKE's Executive Director Tim Crockett is one of four panelists for "Surviving the Assignment 21st Century War Reporting and the Age of Blackwater" a panel sponsored by the CU Journalism School. More >>
2.25mb 10/07/07	AKE's head of risk consultancy and intelligence Daniel Smith speaks to ATP Travellers News about planning and risk assessment for business travellers. More >>
external url 21/06/07	AKE's senior intelligence analyst James McLeod-Hatch speaks to Dagsavisen about private security contractors in Afghanistan. More >>
external url June 2007	AKE talk to Business Bulletin about international security. See pages page 36 and 37. More >>
external url June 2007	AKE's senior intelligence analyst Claire Fleming in Aberdeen talks to exportlink about international security and managing the risks. More >>
external url 31/05/07	Cathedral city where global security thrives on SAS link AKE's Tom Howard speaks to The Guardian about Hereford's international security experts.
external url 09/05/07	AKE's senior intelligence analyst Nadina Bernecker talks to CNBC about international concerns over the stability of Nigerian oil production. CNBC Video: How Secure is Nigerian Oil Supply? CNBC Web: Concerns Grow About Big Drop in Nigerian Oil Production.
external url 13/02/07	Security advice offered to oil workers heading for trouble spot. UK West African Action Group, run by the chamber, has recently entered into partnership with the international security risk mitigation company AKE Group.
86.8kb 13/01/07	AKE's senior intelligence analyst Claire Fleming in Aberdeen talks to The Scotsman National Newspaper about Armed police to guard key power plants against terror.
	2006
381kb Nov 2006	AKEs Energy Security Briefing written by senior intelligence analyst James McLeod-hatch about The Kazakhstan-China Pipeline is republished in OGEL. Read more on our Energy Security Briefings.
1.10mb Nov 2006	AKE's senior intelligence analyst James McLeod-hatch talks to AsianAffairs about imposing alien standards on a deeply conservative Islamic society is not the best of ways to cart democracy to distant lands.
404kb Nov 2006	AKE's senior intelligence analyst Claire Fleming talks to The Press and Journal about violent attacks in Niger Delta.
2.55mb 09/10/06	Dan Smith, head of Risk Consultancy and Intelligence at AKE, speaks to Scandinavian Oil and Gas Magazine about energy security
679kb Sep 2006	Iain Donald, Director of Global Risks at AKE talks to City Security about gauging the real terrorist threat to companies in the city
935kb Aug 2006	An intelligence approach - Dan Smith at AKE presents the risk manager's choice of security risk management for pipelines
751kb 07/08/06	AKE MD speaks about oil and terrorist risk - Oil & Gas Journal
43.2kb 31/07/06	AKE features in Lloyds list Lebanon war may boost energy industry attacks
1.24mb 26/07/06	AKE MD speaks about terrorism and military conflict in the world's key oil-producing regions
	2005
26.5kb 09/07/05	Companies on alert as assaults feared on key economic targets - FT
30kb July 2005	Kidnapping in the Niger Delta
21kb 25/04/05	Queen's Award for security firm
126kb 26/01/05	Quoted in Washington Times
25kb 26/01/05	Layers of security to protect Iraqi vote
	2004
20kb 24/12/04	No changes made yet after deadly bombing
23kb 23/12/04	No security changes yet after Iraq bombing
22.5kb 23/12/04	No security changes yet in wake of suspected suicide bombing
26.5 18/11/04	Deadly threat of explosive devices in Iraq prompts secrecy debate
153kb Sep 2004	State of Iraq
33kb 23/06/04	Contractors to depart before turnover
653kb 11/06/04	Insurance Day Article
26.5kb 13/05/04	In serene setting, real-world dangers; journalists learn war-zone tactics in session at Airlie
23.5 26/04/04	Security firms in search of pros for jobs in Iraq
33kb	Iraq beheading will prompt corporate security review.
24kb	Reinsurance Article