He was, until September 2012, the Director of Development Effectiveness at Oxfam Australia. Prior to that, Chris was Head of Program Policy at Oxfam Great Britain for eight years, and worked for 10 years for the Agency for Cooperation in Research and Development (ACORD), managing the agency’s West Africa and Sahel programs and setting up its research and policy program. He is author of the book Impact Assessment for Development Agencies, the recent report Promoting Voice and Coice: Exploring Innvations in Australian NGO accountabilty and co-editor of Ethical Questions and International NGOs.