Robert Hartwig was invited to speak at the Onshore Energy Conference in London this past November and in Dubai in April. This conference is known as leading non-aligned conference in the power, oil and gas sectors of the insurance industry which seeks to educate, strengthen and motivate delegates from all parts of the insurance industry. Hartwig’s presentation at the London conference centered on the economics of energy and insurance from a global perspective. In Dubai, his talk was titled, “Shifting Sands and Silk Roads: Global Energy Markets, Geopolitical Risk and Insurance in the Middle and Far East.”