Georgia’s elections on 26 October highlighted its balancing act between ties with the West and managing a complex relationship with Russia. Dennis Shen explains how competing visions for the country’s future, challenging geopolitics and potential sanctions threaten socio-political stability.
Chair of the Macroeconomic Council and Senior Director, Scope Ratings, Berlin
Dennis is a strong and passionate believer in strengthening the precision of economic and financial judgment and forecasting – for anchoring better public-policy outcomes and supporting greater efficiency of global financial markets.
He co-authored the DSSI+ debt-restructuring framework, advocating strengthened global debt relief for low- and middle-income economies.
Alongside economist Moritz Krämer, Dennis presented a loss-given-default sovereign-rating framework for incentivising more comprehensive sovereign debt restructuring.
Dennis is a regular contributor for the London School of Economics blog, and supports the Berlin-based NGO, Visioneers gGmbH, on the Supervisory Board.
He sits as member of the Experts Board of the Wikirating Association, and is an external lecturer on sovereign ratings at International School of Management in Germany.
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