WHAT IS AN ECONOMIST?
Updated: Sep 26, 2025 - Renowned for exceptional ability in producing premier economic insights, The Economist employs meticulous research and reporting. The focus on aggregating and analyzing economic data is essential for the group's country risk assessment framework. Comprehensive analyses identify country-specific factors that may challenge insurers' financial commitments, making this work crucial in shaping the group’s perspective on critical country risk trends and developments. Insights are communicated to internal stakeholders, facilitating informed decision-making.
Need-to-Know Overview of an Economist
1. Economist Roles and Responsibilities
- Reduce the need to manually collect data by using Python scripts and web APIs to gather and process data
- Assist in updating the current framework used to determine country risk levels from SAS to Python
- Create and maintain an easily accessible data repository for the team to use for reports and analyst requests
- Present the relevant country risk environment at internal meetings consisting of rating analysts
- A member of the country risk group presents at every rating committee where country risk is determined to be a potential factor
- Keep up to date on various world events (i.e. central bank policy)
- Able to synthesize that knowledge and determine the potential relevance
- Assist with the annual task of writing approximately 150 country risk reports
- Update internal country risk reports as needed for use at internal meetings
- Update the various economic regional report the group produces
- Identify potential topics of interest for report generation
2. Economist Experience and Qualifications
- Programming experience in Python; preferred experience also in SAS
- Excellent Excel abilities
- Excellent written, communication and time management skills
- Interest in international economics
- Ability to work flexible hours to accommodate international offices
- Bloomberg terminal experience an advantage
- A couple of years of experience in economic research, country risk and data analysis
- Undergraduate degree in Economics, Political Science, International Business or related field
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