In Person

Accelerating FDI-Leveraging Key Global Corporate and Business Investment Trends and Data for Informed Strategies

Chris Knight
Managing Director, fDi Specialist Portfolio, Financial Times
Thu, Oct 3
Time of Session
12:15 pm
Chris Knight
Managing Director, fDi Specialist Portfolio, Financial Times

About the Speaker

In Person

Chris Knight

Managing Director, fDi Specialist Portfolio, Financial Times
Chris Knight is the Managing Director of fDi Intelligence, which is part of the Financial Times Ltd. Previous to this, Chris was the Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of Wavteq, which was a boutique FDI consultancy. Chris has been working in the field of foreign direct investment and advising governments...
Speaker Bio

Chris Knight

Managing Director, fDi Specialist Portfolio, Financial Times

Chris Knight is the Managing Director of fDi Intelligence, which is part of the Financial Times Ltd. Previous to this, Chris was the Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of Wavteq, which was a boutique FDI consultancy.

Chris has been working in the field of foreign direct investment and advising governments for over 17 years. Chris is an expert on how to market and promote locations globally. Chris has a track record in the benchmarking of locations, as well as analysing and interpreting FDI trends worldwide. 

Chris has worked with hundreds of IPA’s worldwide in all aspects of foreign direct investment including: lead generation, event organisation and management, best practice in investment promotion and location benchmarking propositions.       

Chris is of the IEDC Board of Directors.

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