Chris is the Chief Economist/Managing Director of CJ Valuers Limited. He provides strategic directives, oversees the firm and builds the capacity of staff, oversees economic/financial analysis, and companies/business and securities appraisals. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the evaluation/valuation and economic/financial/investment appraisal of all asset types and worked in more than 30 countries in the world as an Economist of the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations.

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Currently: A Consultant Economist to Dept of Commerce & Industry, the Autonomous Bougainville Government, and NCOBA; Team leader of the Bougainville Socio-economic Baseline Survey and Bougainville Economic/Investment Summit; Lecturer in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and the Master of Economics and Public Policy (MEPP) programs at the School of Business and Public Policy of the University of PNG. Chris had a brief stint as the Vice President of Divine Word University, Wewak Campus in 2017. 

Recently: Executive Chairman of the Securities Commission PNG (SECOM), Investment Promotion Authority of PNG. Created SECOM in 2018 and managed this new entity for effective regulation, enforcement and compliance of the PNG capital market and securities and stock-exchange industry till 2021. He was a Director at the Bank of PNG Board, advising on Economic Policy & Forecasting. From 2019-2021 he was Consultant Chief Economist to the United Nations in PNG on Economic Policy Analysis, Research and Development Economics; Quarterly Economic Monitor; Team Leader in preparation of PNG’s National Investment Policy; Valuation of Bougainville’s Economic Assets; Bougainville’s Strategic Socioeconomic Development Masterplan; Bougainville Socio-Economic Baseline Survey; Assessment of the Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 in PNG.

Prior to current/recent roles, Chris had a long career, spanning 22 years (1995-2018) as a Macroeconomist with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and served in over 30 countries throughout Asia-Pacific, Caucasus and Central Europe. Chris served at ADB headquarters as well as in its country offices including as ADB’s Resident Chief Economist in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Nepal, and Russia. His expertise includes economic and financial evaluations of investment operations of the Bank, valuations of securities, stocks and companies, macroeconomic policy analysis and forecasting. He also worked in PNG’s Dept of Finance and DFAT.

Chris holds 3 Masters Degrees: A master in Business Economics (MBE); a master in Business Administration (MBA); a Masters in International Political Economy (MIPE) from Victoria University; and a Bachelors in Economics & Political Science from UPNG. He has received numerous specialized technical training and certifications in various economic management technical areas; for professional enhancement; and in the operations, policies and procedures of a number of international development finance institutions including the World Bank group, IMF, IFAD, ADB, EIB, EC/EU, WTO, the UN agencies, and bilateral aid/donor agencies.

A certified capital markets regulator of the IOSCO (International Organization for Securities Commissions) and Toronto Centre for Securities Regulators; Member of Capital Markets Technical Working Group for Asia-Pacific; ASEAN Capital Market Reform Working Group; ADB Economists club; UNDP Economists club; and a certified Director from the PNG Institute of Directors. He was Awarded PNG’s National Logohu Award in recognition for Anticorruption and Economic Management.