Chris is Manager, Heritage Policy and Government Relations at the National Trust for Canada, which he joined in 2006. He organizes the National Trust’s annual conference, coordinates the National Roundtable on Heritage Education, and works on such issues as the economics of heritage and sustainable preservation.

Chris has been an instructor in the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria since 2012 and a member of the Central Experimental Farm Advisory Council for almost a decade. He sat on the Board of Directors at the Willowbank School for Restoration Arts from 2009 to 2015. He holds Master of Arts degrees from Carleton University (Canadian Studies – Heritage Conservation) and the University of Alberta (English) and has written widely on heritage conservation and cultural issues for such magazines as Canadian Geographic and Alberta View.