Christopher Conway
Speaker
Managing Director
Global Head of Shipping & Logistics
Export Agency Finance, Citi
Speaker
Managing Director
Global Head of Shipping & Logistics
Export Agency Finance, Citi
Christopher Conway is the Global Head of Shipping – Export Agency Finance. He has held this role since August 2015. Prior to this assignment Chris was Global Head of Risk for Shipping and Offshore Logistics in addition to being Head of Risk for Global Industrials (GIG) in EMEA.
Prior to joining Citi, he spent 5 years as a lender in the Shipping Industry covering Greece and Scandinavia. While at Citi, he has held a number of coverage roles in both shipping and industrial sectors driving complex structured transactions from an early stage in his career of which the privatisation financing for the UK ports and ferry business was an early example.
From 1986 to 1996, he was part of a global risk workout team based in New York in a restructuring role for both general corporates and real estate. His return to Europe included a 5 year spell in Poland as Head of Risk for the Corporate Bank. Chris returned to New York for a 2 year stint helping build a mid-cap business, before returning to the UK to take up a pan-European risk role. Throughout his career he has stayed close to the shipping industry which now is his sole focus.