More than 192 million Indonesian voters on 17 April will elect officials to over 20,000 public offices - including the presidency - in the world’s largest election held on a single day.

Mega events present an opportunity to celebrate ideas, cultures and showcase human potential. Since the first Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, in 1896, the FIFA Football World Cup in Uruguay in 1930 and the World Fair (Expo) in Brussels, Belgium, in 1935, we have seen how mega events promote the economy, create jobs, foster collaboration and partnerships and revitalise urban infrastructure.

Each year, Control Risks’ decides the top 5 Risks for businesses in the coming year. While these are global in scope, here we discuss how they will drive developments in the business environment in the Middle East and North Africa in 2019.

When investors say “technology drives business” what do they mean? Fundamentally, they mean a business’s ability to collect, process, analyze and monetize data.

The well-established crime of kidnapping-for-ransom saw notable developments in 2018. Alongside this dynamism, there was also a broad continuity in global trends which will allow businesses to plan for 2019 and mitigate this threat.