Christopher McKee Biography

Dr Christopher McKee is an international political economist, entrepreneur, global investor, and Chief Executive and Owner of the PRS Group Inc., and Gavea Emerging Markets Corporation. Chris is also the Editor-in-Chief of the globally-acclaimed International Country Risk Guide.

Dr McKee’s talks center on global affairs and, in particular, the role political and country risk plays in political behavior, economic and market dynamics, and in the performance of major asset classes (equities, bonds, currencies). Dr McKee has addressed audiences of all sizes, ranging from academic, to institutional investors, to multinational business and trade associations.

Dr McKee has lived and worked in Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and parts of Europe and is recognized internationally and by Canadian judicial authorities as an authority in country risk assessment.

Christopher appears regularly in the press, and has been interviewed or quoted by such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, Institutional Investor, Modern Trader, Financial Advisor Magazine, Hedge Fund Manager, Wealth Manager, African Business Journal, Global Resource Network, Latin Finance, Inc. Magazine, Euromoney, Reuters, Esquire, In the Black, CIO, Bloomberg, and Private Equity International.

Chris received his doctorate in international political economy from Queen’s University and is a former faculty member at the University of British Columbia. While in academe, Chris operated a country risk consultancy for natural resource extraction firms with commercial interests in several emerging markets, and later worked in the private and public sectors conducting due diligence assessments of limited recourse financing projects in the mining and oil and gas sectors and constructing micro-financing facilities.

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