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Daniel Thorpe Partner — MDD Forensic Accountants [email protected] Daniel has been with MDD Forensic Accountants for more than ten years and worked in the firm’s London, Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand offices before relocating to open and manage the firm’s Dubai office, based in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) in 2013. Since moving to the region, Daniel has been involved in a number of high-profile, high- value Business Interruption, Contingent Business Interruption and Delay in Start-Up (DSU/ALOP) claims throughout the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. Specifically, within the Energy sector, Daniel has advised Loss Adjusters, Insurers and Reinsurers on the quantification of economic losses in a number of industries including: power generation (including desalination), refining, petrochemicals and manufacturing. Daniel was promoted to Partner in January 2017. of Marsh Energy’s upstream and downstream political violence risks. Adam was also seconded to the Marsh Global Markets Construction broking team. He has been based in Dubai since 2007, where he was tasked with setting up and running the Energy placement team. He has been extremely influential in the development of that market, seeing it grow from around $500m of capacity in 2007 to over $2,500m today. As head of energy market placement, he set and executed the strategies for construction, upstream, downstream, liability and political violence accounts. He has also developed the hub into an extremely successful wholesale placement resource for global accounts in addition to the retail work for regional clients. He now leads the Energy team in Dubai responsible for MENA business, overseeing placement, client service, engineering and operations. Adam Wakeley Managing Director — Marsh [email protected] Adam is the Dubai Energy hub leader, responsible for all Energy business in the MENA region. He has been with Marsh since 2002 having joined on the graduate scheme. He spent five years working in London as a specialist on the Onshore placement team. During this time he was heavily involved in a diverse range of global downstream business. Additionally he was responsible for placing all 12