Christopher Chaplin Email & Phone Number

Christopher Chaplin is Jamaica's Honorary Consul in Philadelphia. His appointment by the Government of Jamaica through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade became effective on April 2, 2019. In 2023, he was elected President of the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia, the oldest consular association in the United States and which serves members from 82 countries. He served his first term in 2023 and was re-elected President for the 2024 term of office.Mr. Chaplin is Vice President. Portfolio Management at Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) where he leads a team that manages over $400 million in real estate and business loans in the City of Philadelphia. He serves as a Member of the Private Capital Oversight Committee (PCOC) of the Development Bank of Jamaica. He is a Commissioner on the Mayor's Commission on African and Caribbean Immigrant Affairs for the City of Philadelphia. He is also a Member of the Board of Philadelphia 250, an independent non-profit organization formed to organize Philadelphia's celebration of the United States' 250th year of Independence.Mr. Chaplin is the Founder of the Canada Hall Scholarship Fund and is the Founding President of the St. George’s College Old Boys Association of The Northeast. He is also a Founder of Caribbean Gives!, a fund aimed at helping Caribbean undocumented domestic violence victims in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.He earned a BSc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and a MBA from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Listed skills include Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, Project Management, Negotiation, and 2 others.