Chris Weafer

Chris Weafer is Chief Strategist with UralSib Financial Corporation in Moscow. UralSib is one of Russia’s biggest non-state owned financial groups combining activities in investment, corporate and retail banking, insurance and asset management. Chris was ranked the number one Russia markets strategist by the Thomson Extel-Interfax 2007 Survey.

Prior to joining UralSib in 2007, he held a similar position for five years with Russia’s Alfa Bank. Before that he held the position of head of research at Troika Dialog, a local investment bank, for four years. In total, he has lived and worked in Moscow for almost eleven years.

Before coming to Moscow in the summer of 1998, Chris was head of equity research in South East Asia for NatWest Markets, based in Thailand, for two years. Prior to this he was Senior Investment Manager for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the largest self-managed investment funds in the world. He held this position for seven years and was based in Abu Dhabi city. Mr. Weafer started his career in the investment industry, specifically in emerging markets, twenty-eight years ago with the Irish Life Assurance Company in Dublin. His held the position of head of research, and later Senior Portfolio Manager, for eight years.