This summer’s two week protest over the electricity tariff increase did not live up to some people’s expectations for the start of an Armenian Spring but it should have...
Christopher J Weafer
Christopher J. Weafer is a founding partner of Macro Advisory, Bespoke Russia-CIS Consulting. Earlier he held the positions of Chief Strategist at Sberbank-CIB, Chief Strategist with Uralsib Financial Corporation and Alfa Bank. He also worked as Head of Research for NatWest Markets in Bangkok, Thailand, during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, Senior Investment Manager at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Chris started his investment career with the Irish Life Assurance Company in Dublin, Ireland. He was voted the best Russia investment strategist for 2013 by investors in separate polls carried out by Thomson Reuters Extel and Institutional Investor magazine.
Twitter: @ChrisWeafer
When compared to the widespread predictions of gloom and doom for the Russian economy and ruble of late last year the actual results for the first quarter of 2015 have...
