Christopher is an Economist at the Standard Bank Group. He covers macroeconomic research fixed income and currency strategy, and his primary coverage is East Africa. Christopher is part of a larger team conducting macroeconomic research on African countries. Prior to joining Standard Bank, Christopher worked for fourteen and a half years at the Central Bank of Kenya, within Financial Markets in debt management, foreign exchange, and reserves management. Christopher was a member of the Foreign Exchange Reserves Investment Committee of the Central Bank of Kenya. He is a Fellow of the Milken Institute and International Finance Corporation Capital Markets Program and was featured in the Milken Institutes 2018 Power of Ideas magazine. Christopher holds a graduate certificate in capital markets from The George Washington University School of Business, and a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from Strathmore University in Kenya.