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Associate Professor, Business, Economics and Public Policy
Donald F. Hunter Professor in International Business
Christian is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ivey Business School since 2021, having previously spent ten years at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. He is a Research Associate in Political Economy and Economic History at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a founding co-editor of the Journal of Historical Political Economy, a consultant with the Chicago FED, and a Campbell Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation in the U.S., and by Canada’s SSHRC, and has been published in Econometrica and the American Economic Review, among other outlets. Christian is an expert on non-market strategy, governance, and indigenous economic development.
In addition, Christian is the co-founder of LobbyIQ, an AI-powered government-relations and data-analytics platform, and a founding partner at Orange Green Consulting.