Chris first worked for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2005 in Darfur, Sudan. He has since worked for the organisation in Somalia and Pakistan. In 2010, he was appointed Operations Manager in Amsterdam, in charge of operations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Sudan and Uganda.
Since 2014, Chris has worked and studied outside MSF as a fellow at Yale University, operations director for Action Against Hunger in New York, and a student of philosophy and ethics in the UK.