Chris was awarded his PhD from Monash University in 1996. Prior to joining Deakin University in 1985, he worked at the ANZ Banking Group. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Surveys, a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Political Economy, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
His primary research interests are the political economy of collective action, development aid, and inequality, and the development and application of methods for meta-analysis and research synthesis.