Christopher has always preserved a livelong passion for nature and conservation, while pursuing a successful international career in business and communication that spanned London, France and Canada, USA and Africa. While still in his early twenties, he created and ran the retail arm of a French industrial business, before moving to Canada, where he helped to build up the largest advertising and communications agency in the country. Later, in NYC he developed the largely under-marketed luxury goods and up-market travel niches. Combining his wide experience in international business and marketing with his passion for conservation, he then helped to create the largest community-based private wildlife reserve in Africa in southern Zimbabwe. Christopher and his wife, celebrated wildlife vet Dr. Julie Garnier, then discovered the only remaining coastal wildlife populations in Mozambique, along with the last unchartered islands in the Western Indian Ocean. There, they created a community-based private coastal wildlife area, with the first marine conservation area in northern Mozambique, that included 3 islands. They also created luxury tourism programmes that included Vamizi Island Lodge, ranked as one of the top 100 hotels in the world. Prestigious scientific partners joined the project and substantial funding for conservation and community programmes was raised from partnerships with the private sector. Having created some of the most successful sustainable community-based conservation initiatives in Africa, combining working partnerships with business, Christopher then founded Odyssey for Change, which creates active partnerships between visionary businesses and the environment; the Odyssey Conservation Trust, which runs conservation and indigenous community and women’s programmes worldwide and Odyssey&Co., a social business that partners well-known designers and creators with the Odyssey Conservation Trust activities.