John Merkovsky serves as the Global Leader for Marsh Risk Consulting (MRC), overseeing and directing the daily operations and continuing growth of its consulting practices. In addition, he is responsible for Marsh’s thought leadership activities around emerging risk issues such as corporate governance, climate change, pandemic, and supply chain. He also helps coordinate Marsh’s participation in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Network.

John began his risk consulting career in 1984, working for various firms until establishing his own in 1997, which then became part of Marsh in 2001. In these capacities, he participated in the review and measurement of economic damages, and in supply chain risk modeling. John has also testified in various Federal and state courts as an expert on financial damages issues.

He has been interviewed by Reuters TV, Business Insurance, and other publications with regards to the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report, by Business Review Weekly (Australia) on global supply chains, and by The Financial Times on the changing risk paradigm companies face today.

John has participated in panel discussions on major global risk issues at RIMS and at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He delivered a keynote address at the Secure Trade in the APEC Region (STAR V) Conference in June 2007, addressed a United Nations leadership meeting convened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in September 2007 on the importance and effectiveness of risk management, and was a keynote speaker and panelist at the 2008 Risk Management Institution of Australasia conference.

In 2008, he was also named a Top 25 Consultant by Consulting Magazine. Most recently, John served as the keynote speaker at the World Conference on Disaster Management in June 2009 in Toronto and addressed enterprise risk management and global risk issues in March 2009 at a conference held at and with the Turkish Stock Exchange in Istanbul.