Timothy Histed

Timothy Histed
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
Timothy Histed is Head of Southeast & Australasia at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank Group which he joined in 2013. He is responsible for business development in the region. Prior to joining MIGA, Tim held various senior roles including director in institutional & corporate solutions at Standard Bank in London where he structured and implemented the bank’s political risk and credit insurance purchasing programme and as director in structured credit/ART at Dresdner Kleinwort in London where he concentrated on alternative risk transfer structures in relation to infrastructure projects and utility companies as well as asset backed transactions involving public finance, corporate credit, equity and insurance assets. He started his career as a lawyer and qualified as an attorney in South Africa and is also admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (MCSI). Tim holds a BSc (Hons) in molecular biology and an LLB from the University of Kwazulu-Natal and an LLM from the University of South Africa.













































