Christopher is the Chief Underwriting Officer at The Development Guarantee Group (DGG). He is responsible for leading the Portfolio Team which screens, structures and monitors the portfolio of guarantees to achieve impact and manage credit risks. He brings extensive experience in assessing both structured credit and equity opportunities across economic cycles.

Before joining DGG, Christopher spearheaded Moody’s Ratings analytical activities in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDE) climate finance for infrastructure, positioning the agency as a thought leader in rated blended finance debt capital markets issuance. He led Moody’s ratings process for EMDE project finance deals in Türkiye, Ukraine, Gabon, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda and Senegal, and helped strengthen the agency’s work in Asia and Latin America.

Before Moody’s, Christopher worked for a renewable energy private equity company (part of a major family office) where he had responsibility for deal valuation, project financing and portfolio management. He began his career on the interest rate derivatives desk at JPMorgan Asset Management. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and a Master of Philosophy in International Development from Oxford University. He is a CFA charter holder.

The Development Guarantee Company (DGG), co-founded by Cardano Development, is the only specialist advisory, project development and asset management company focused on creating innovative guarantee solutions that help deliver the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The company provides advisory services to strategy, operations, risk management and governance of guarantors and guarantee programmes; asset management of newly created guarantors or guarantee programmes in partnership with project clients including the Green Guarantee Company, the world’s first climate focused financial guarantor, and project development to bridge the gap between advisory and asset management using diverse experience to create bespoke guarantee solutions including Nautilus, the Blue Guarantee Company.