Christopher Whitehead

Christopher Whitehead is a Lecturer in Law. He is interested in the law of the English- and French-speaking worlds and of the Pacific, particularly as it relates to the financial services. He is currently researching various questions of insurance law, such as how insurers may transfer business to one another and to what extent insurers may cover penalties for regulatory and criminal liability. Before joining AUT Law School, he practised for 10 years in Paris, France, as legal counsel to a French-headquartered banking group and then to a United States-headquartered insurance group. In these roles, he advised on the law of several countries (including France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom) as applying to his employers’ business — on questions of insurance law, as well as of banking and general business law. More recently, he worked in Montreal, Canada, as a data-protection consultant for a Japanese conglomerate. In 2020, he received an AUT Excellence in Teaching Award. Also, from 2001 to 2004, he worked at AUT as a Lecturer in French.