Developing cross-border solutions
Barrister and former chair of FIDE’s International Academic Council (2017-2022). He is a consultant to Eversheds-Sutherland (International) LLP. He is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn. In his earlier career, Christopher was General Counsel to the UK Department for Transport, where he was chief legal adviser to eight successive Secretaries of State, as well as a member of its Executive Board. His other UK Government roles included being Secretary to the independent Inquiry by Lord Scott into arms exports to Iraq and principal legal adviser to the UK Attorney-General on EC Law issues. After leaving government service, he became a member of Monckton Chambers in London.
