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Dr. Patrick Caragata is the author of five books, including Business Early Warning Systems: Corporate Governance for the New Millennium (Butterworths, 1999). He is the founder and CEO of Rapid Ratings, a software-based on-line global corporate credit rating service headquartered in Australia (www.rapidratings.com) with offices in Australia, New Zealand and Germany. His previous positions include Chief Tax Policy Adviser, Inland Revenue Department, New Zealand; Senior Policy Adviser at Investment Canada (working on the investment risks of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement), and Senior International Economist at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in charge of the bank’s country risk analysis group. |