[custom_adv] Christopher leads communications at AKF and works to raise awareness about key development issues in the UK and Europe. [custom_adv] This includes working in collaboration with the organisation’s European based partners to raise the profile of AKF ’s partnerships and the impact they are making on the ground. [custom_adv] Christopher also works with the agencies of the broader Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) on a variety of global communications initiatives from developing photographic exhibitions about cultural restoration in Cairo to engaging media on AKDN’s investments in Central Asia. He is also a photographer for AKDN globally. [custom_adv] Christopher joined the Foundation in 2013, having worked previously in communications roles at Random House publishing in China and subsequently at one of London’s leading brand agencies. [custom_adv] Christopher has an MA in Art and Architectural History from Edinburgh University. [custom_adv] Christopher's work has been featured in magazines and newspapers around the world. [custom_adv] He had his first exhibition at the Institut Française in Antananarivo, Madagascar, in November 2016. Christopher's second exhibition - The Artisans of al-Darb al-Ahmar: Life and Work in Historic Cairo - was exhibited at the London's Royal Geographical Society in April 2018. [custom_adv] The same exhibition was shown at Philanthropy House in Brussels between January and April 2019 and will tour Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver in 2020. [custom_adv] Between June and November 2019, Christopher journeyed from London to Beijing overland working on a project about the Silk Road to be exhibited in London in 2020/21. [custom_adv] Through his photography, Christopher is interested in exploring less well documented and often misunderstood parts of the world in an effort to help demystify them and build bridges of understanding between different worlds.