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Christopher is an internationally recognized authority on studying the economies of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. He is a major shareholder of Macroeconomic Advisory Company, a Moscow based consulting firm that provides customized research services to macro hedge fund organizations, venture capital investors, and foreign companies looking for investment opportunities in Russia and Central Asia. Weaver has been working in Russia for nearly twenty years. In a separate investor opinion poll conducted by Thomson Reuters Extel and Financial Institution Investor Magazine, he was selected as the best investment strategist in Russia for 2013. Over the past decade, he has repeatedly ranked in the top three of these individual opinion polls. Before collaborating with others to create a macroeconomic advisory firm, he served as the Chief Strategist of the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation, which is the largest bank in Russia and one of the largest banks in Europe. Prior to this, he served as the Chief Strategist for four years at Ulasib Financial and five years at Alpha Bank, two of Russia's largest private financial groups. His first position in Russia began in June 1998 as the research director of a private investment bank, the Tripartite Dialogue Investment Bank, and he served for over four years. Before arriving in Russia, Weaver served as the research director of National Westminster Bank in the Bangkok region of Thailand during the 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis. Prior to this, he was a senior investment manager at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund organizations located in the city of Abu Dhabi. Weaver's investment career began with an Irish life insurance company located in Dublin, Ireland, and he has accumulated over 33 years of work experience in emerging markets. He has published many articles on macro development trends in Russia, Central Asia, and oil. Meanwhile, his views on these topic areas and related topics have been widely cited by many financial media.

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