Edward Hunter CHRISTIE is Managing Director for North-West Europe at the Economic Security Forum (ESF), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geoeconomics, and an Adjunct Professor of Defence Economics at Sciences Po Paris (PSIA).
Prof. Christie has held previous positions across government, industry, and research, including at NATO as a Defence Economist and subsequently as Deputy Head of Innovation; as a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA); as Chief Economist at the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies, a major European industry association, and as Political Affairs Director at Hypersonica, a European defence and aerospace company.
He holds a joint PhD in Economics and in the Social and Military Sciences from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Belgium’s Royal Military Academy.