Christopher Granville

Christopher Granville is a co-founder of Trusted Sources. He is directly responsible for research on Russian and other former Soviet markets where he has spent most of his career. Previously, he spent six years as chief strategist and political analyst at United Financial Group (UFG), a Moscow-based investment bank now owned by Deutsche Bank. In several surveys of fund managers conducted during this period by Institutional Investor and Thomson Extel, he was ranked No. 1 EMEA Strategist and/or Analyst on Russia. Christopher joined UFG from Fleming-UCB, where since 1995 he had held the position of managing director and head of research. Prior to that, he was a UK diplomat, and served for four years in the Political Section of the British Embassy in Moscow.

Christopher has a Master’s degree in modern history and modern languages from Oxford University and was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He contributed a long essay on the political and societal background to economic reform in Russia in Granville & Oppenheimer (eds), Russia’s Post-Communist Economy (Oxford University Press, 2001).