Chris is the Acting Vice President of DFC’s Office of Development Policy. This office works to ensure that DFC’s portfolio and projects produce positive developmental impacts, are environmentally and socially responsible, and respect human rights.
Through the spring of 2024, Chris was also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he taught a graduate course on impact investing and innovative finance for six years.
Prior to joining DFC, Chris was the Social Innovations Director at Mercy Corps, where he worked to scale up entrepreneurial solutions to development challenges. He advised Mercy Corps Ventures, the organization’s impact investment fund, and managed a funding and learning partnership that financed social enterprises. Previously, Chris was the head of the Innovative Finance Program at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), where he designed and built initiatives that attracted investment capital to address malnutrition. These included partnerships with impact investors and a ranking of the world’s largest food and beverage companies on their nutrition practices which serves as an assessment tool for the sustainable investment community. Prior to GAIN, Chris was a Fellow with Acumen, a non-profit social venture capital fund, and worked for a social enterprise in which Acumen had invested in Mumbai, India. Earlier in his career, Chris worked on international economic and financial policy issues at the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. State Department and on development assistance policy at the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Chris earned a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a BA from Williams College.