Chip is publisher and principal author of Emerging Markets Outlook, as well as founder and Managing Partner of Koios Associates LLC, a firm specialized in investment, trade, and financial strategy in emerging markets. He has over 20 years of corporate, financial, and consulting experience, and has worked in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, and speaks and writes French fluently.

Chip has served as an advisor to cabinet ministers, investment and trade promotion agencies, financial institutions, private and institutional investors, and senior corporate executives. His consulting clients have included over 20 corporations, banks, consulting firms, and fund managers, including Morgan Stanley, D.E. Shaw, Monitor Group, Rockwell International, NCR, FMC, and KPMG, as well as the World Bank and regional development banks, the European Union, DFID, USAID, The Millennium Challenge Corporation, and over 30 national and provincial/regional governments.

Before founding Koios Associates, Chip was Chief of the Office for Africa of the International Trade Centre, responsible for trade-related technical assistance in more than 15 African countries, prior to which he was Senior Trade and Investment Advisor to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Previously, as Head of Africa Consulting Services for Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank South Africa, he built and managed a successful pan-African privatization and financial advisory service. Earlier in his career Chip was a Senior Associate with Abt Associates, a leading U.S. economic development consultancy firm. He has worked with several start-up companies, including an Africa-focused internet-based business information publisher that he co-founded, a pan-African TV broadcaster, and a pan-African internet information and e-commerce portal.

Chip earned an MBA in finance and international business from Columbia University, and a BA in anthropology from Reed College. He has lived for extended periods in ten countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, in addition to the United States. His interests and hobbies include skiing, cycling, kayaking, hiking, literature, jazz and blues, and cooking.