Chris served for nineteen years in the Royal Artillery and as a Commando Battery commander, deployed to Kurdistan in support of the 1991 humanitarian mission. After leaving the British Army, he was recruited in 1996 by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for secondment to UNSCOM as an Iraq Weapons Inspector and Operations Officer. He was appointed Chief Inspector conducting investigations into weapons programs and suspected concealment.
FCO secondment as an observer to the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission followed; duties included undertaking investigations into three major incidents subsequently referred to the International Criminal Tribunal Yugoslavia (ICTY): Racak, Rogovo and Racavina. Appointments held were Liaison Officer to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), mediating prisoner and body exchanges, and Commander of the Urosevac Region.
Chris returned to the Balkans independently during the NATO offensive to advise and escort journalists and camera crews covering events in Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. Since Kosovo Chris has continued to provide support to the media, as well as advise industry and NGO’s in hostile locations such as war and conflict zones, football riots, and on top of an active volcano!
FCO secondment as an observer to the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission followed; duties included undertaking investigations into three major incidents subsequently referred to the International Criminal Tribunal Yugoslavia (ICTY): Racak, Rogovo and Racavina. Appointments held were Liaison Officer to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), mediating prisoner and body exchanges, and Commander of the Urosevac Region.
Chris returned to the Balkans independently during the NATO offensive to advise and escort journalists and camera crews covering events in Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. Since Kosovo Chris has continued to provide support to the media, as well as advise industry and NGO’s in hostile locations such as war and conflict zones, football riots, and on top of an active volcano!
In addition, Chris has conducted investigations into a number of high-profile human rights and humanitarian law violations, primarily in the Israeli Occupied Territories and those controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Foremost among these were the deaths in 2000 of a BBC driver/fixer Abed Takkoush and in May 2003 of director and cameraman James Miller in Rafah, Gaza.
Chris is a safety and security advisor to INSI.
He serves with MOG(V) as a Media Liaison Officer in Afghanistan
He holds a front line Close Protection Licence. 0801 1002 0438 2609
