Chris has been involved in market regulation and development for almost 30 years, for six years to 1996 as a director of the International Petroleum Exchange, where he was responsible  for innovations including the UK Natural Gas Balancing Point contract design and market mechanism. Chris has  been active  in the development of Financial Technology (FinTech) from 1998 when he   introduced the first shared market transaction repository (OilClear) which was subsequently adopted by major global energy exchanges. Chris is a strategic market expert, consultant and legal designer and since 2011 has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security of University College London researching networked, distributed, and hence resilient markets in services