Practitioners who have led the institutions we advise

Our team brings together people who have led public financial institutions and the Berne Union, alongside commercial bankers, public insurers and academics. The senior experts you meet at the start are the people who do the work.

  • Leadership of the export credit agencies of Germany, Finland and Denmark
  • President and Vice President roles at the Berne Union
  • Professors and researchers at Oxford and Bayes Business School

Partners

Prof Dr Andreas Klasen

Partner and Managing Director

Led Germany’s official export credit agency as Managing Director and was a Partner at PwC.

Andreas Klasen advises international organisations, governments, development banks, export credit agencies, innovation funds and corporates on analytics, strategy, organisational design and operations.

Development financeExport credit agenciesPublic policyStrategy

Constanze Klasen

Partner and Chief Operating Officer

Leads the firm’s development and the delivery of its professional and commercial functions.

Constanze Klasen leads the strategic development of lill Advisory and the engagement and delivery of its professional and commercial functions.

GovernanceMarketing and communicationOrganisational development

Dr Pauli Heikkilä

Senior Associate

Led Finnvera, Finland’s export credit agency and national promotional bank, as CEO.

Pauli Heikkilä advises financial institutions and governments on national innovation systems, SME financing, export credits and public-private cooperation.

Export creditInnovation systemsSME finance
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Dr Hans Janus

Senior Associate

Led Germany’s export credit agency for more than 20 years and served as President of the Berne Union.

Hans Janus advises financial institutions and governments on international finance, export promotion and the development of commercial law.

Commercial lawExport creditGovernance
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Dr Simone Krummaker

Senior Associate

Associate Professor in Insurance at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London.

Simone Krummaker advises on the strategy and implementation of risk management frameworks in the financial sector.

ESGInsuranceRisk management
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Kai Preugschat

Senior Associate

Senior roles at the Asian Development Bank, the Berne Union, UniCredit, Euler Hermes, KfW IPEX-Bank and ANZ.

Kai Preugschat advises multilateral institutions, governments and export credit agencies on strategy, regulation and transactions.

Development financeRegulationTransactions
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Jan Vassard

Senior Associate

Served as Deputy CEO of EKF, Denmark’s export credit agency.

Jan Vassard advises governments, development banks and export credit agencies on analytics, strategy and organisational change.

ESGInternational relationsStrategy
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Jef Vincent

Senior Associate

Head of Investment Operations at iTrust, with more than 30 years in credit and political risk insurance.

Jef Vincent advises governments, EXIM banks, export credit agencies and development banks on institutional design, process improvement and the implementation of financial instruments.

Institutional designOperationsPolitical risk
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Constanze Klasen and Andreas Klasen in a working session at a flipchart

Every engagement led by senior experts

We build each team around your question, bringing together experts who have led institutions like yours. No hand-over to junior staff, from the first analysis to implementation.