Biography
Prof. Christopher Davis has carried out academic research since 1973 in the areas of demography, health, industry, economic theory, and defence related to the USSR/Russia and East Europe. He studied for his B.A. at Harvard University (1969, Applied Mathematics), served as an officer in the US Navy during 1969-1973, and obtained his Ph.D. in Economics in 1980 from Cambridge University for a dissertation on The Economics of Health in the USSR. He has held tenured academic positions at the University of Birmingham (Centre for Russian and East European Studies) (1978-1991) and the University of Oxford (Economics and Area Studies) (1991-2015). His current position is Professorial Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. Christopher commenced his research on USSR/Russia defence economics in 1984 and has produced around twenty publications in this field. He has made numerous visits to the USSR and Russia, including a year (1976-1977) at Moscow State University as a USA-USSR postgraduate exchange student. He currently holds part-time research positions in Moscow in the field of health economics at the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration (2013-2020) and the Higher School of Economics (2018-2021). A publication of relevance to the IBA Litigation Forum is: C. Davis, 2016. The Ukraine Conflict, Economic-Military Power Balances, and Economic Sanctions, Post-Communist Economies, Open Access at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14631377.2016.1139301
