Michael Creighton

Executive Director, Credit & Political Risks at WTW

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In June 2019 Michael Creighton joined WTW as Team Leader and Executive Director within Financial Solutions, a team responsible for the credit and political risk insurance of a portfolio of clients that include export credit agencies, corporates and banks (commercial, public and developmental).

Prior to joining WTW Michael was, for a period of three years, employed by Nedbank, a South African bank focussed on doing business in Africa, as their head of export credit finance. This role involved the management of a team that was responsible for all Nedbank’s corporate and investment banking that required the use of risk mitigation instruments provided by export credit agencies, private credit and political risk insurers and multilateral insurance agencies such as MIGA, and the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI now ATIDI). These transactions typically involved the medium to long term funding of infrastructure projects in Africa including energy, water, roads, railways, airports, health and mining.

Before joining Nedbank, Michael was employed for eight years by SACE, the Italian Export Credit Agency, and was responsible for running their representative offices in Africa and for a period in Asia, based in Hong Kong. In addition, during most of this period, Michael was a non-executive board director and finance and audit committee chairperson of an African multilateral export credit agency and trade credit and political risk insurer (ATI/ATIDI).

Michael commenced his career in 1993 in a South African credit insurance company, CUAL which later became Coface South Africa. After 15 years he departed from the organisation in the position of Executive Director.

Michael holds a finance degree, majoring in economics, accountancy and business economics, from the University of Witwatersrand; an honours degree from the University of South Africa, an MBA from Henley Business School in the United Kingdom and a Doctor of Philosophy (PHD) from the University of Pretoria (GIBS).