Currently Chris has been working, since March 2020, as a Bushfire Recovery Advisory (BRA) to a Victorian-wide church-based agency, which is supporting 2019/2020 bushfire affected households and communities in and around three areas in the east of the State.

In the past Chris has worked as:

• Global Humanitarian Adviser (GHA) for three European-based agencies.
• Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Advisor with a national church-based agency in Vanuatu.
• DRM Advisor for the Tonga National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO).
• DRM Adviser for a Victorian church involved in community-based recovery initiatives following the 2009 bushfires and 2011 floods
• Crisis Centre Advisor to Albanian not-for-profit (NFP) agencies in Tirana responding to the 1999 influx of refugees from Kosovo

Global Humanitarian consultancy work has included:

• A three month UN mission in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh working with the Rohingya refugees.
• Carrying out separate Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) Consultancies in Laos, PNG, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands.
• Being the DRM expert on an Australian Government mission to Cambodia, planning out the comprehensive resettlement and reintegration program of refugees from Thailand
• Carrying out NGO recovery initiatives in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, following the Indian Ocean tsunami; and in Myanmar, following Cyclone Nargis
• UN capacity building role with the Comprehensive Disaster Management Program (CDMP) in Bangladesh
• Member of the joint Australian-PNG government team planning out recovery initiatives following the tsunami at Aitape, PNG
• Planning and implementing chartered aircraft carrying humanitarian supplies into Ethiopia (2 flights), Bangladesh, and Jordan
• Carrying out drought assessments for Australian NGOs working in both PNG and Afghanistan

Mentoring has including:

• Supporting a global humanitarian practitioner, working out of Malawi, since 2004
• Shorter term mentoring initiatives supporting practitioners working in both Afghanistan and Niger.