About

Burkhard Wittgen is the owner of this blog. He was born in 1986 and began his career in the credit insurance industry during the 2009 financial crisis at Coface in the United Kingdom. After completing his bachelor’s degree in 2010, he initially worked as a commercial manager for a multinational plant construction company in Libya. After the outbreak of the civil war in Libya in 2011, Burkhard returned to Germany and worked for Coface as a corporate client advisor for 2 years before moving to the world’s largest credit insurance broker, Aon Credit Solutions, as an account manager for international clients in 2013. From 2013 to 2015 he completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) beside the job and specialized in his master’s thesis on the analysis of purchasing strategies of multinational companies with regard to credit insurance. He developed an optimized purchasing strategy that enables international companies to make the best possible use of their purchasing power without neglecting their local responsibility towards their own local subsidiaries worldwide. Burkhard was a member of the executive board at Aon Credit Solutions from 2019 to 2023 and Global Head of Innovation and Developing Markets from January 2023 until September 2024. In October 2024 Burkhard has joined the leading broking firm WTW as Global Head of Multinational Clients (Trade- Credit/Finance).