Preston Keat

Preston Keat (born September 22, 1966) is an American political scientist specializing in global political risk. He is the head of political and country risk and a managing director at UBS. Prior to joining UBS, he was a director of research and head of the Europe practice at Eurasia Group, and worked on economic and political transition at the German Marshall Fund of the US. He has also taught and lectured widely on political risk (e.g. Columbia, LSE, SAIS). He holds a PhD in political science from UCLA, a master's degree from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary.
Selected bibliography
Books
*[http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Management/StrategicManagement/?viewusa&ci9780195328554 The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing]. (with Ian Bremmer), (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Essays and articles
*'"What markets miss: political stability frameworks and country risk" in . (edited by Ian Bremmer, Paul Bracken and David Gordon), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
*"Fallen Heroes: explaining the failure of the Gdansk shipyard, and the successful early reform strategies in Szczecin and Gdynia," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, April 2003.
*"Brace yourself: Political-market risks in 2009" on Reuters, http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/01/05/brace-yourself-political-market-risks-in-2009/

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