Following a decade as a town-planning consultant, Christopher has worked in corporate real estate since 1984. He started IPD Occupiers in 1994 and has overseen its growth and development since then. IPD is now the market leader in the field of performance measurement for occupiers with records for over 50 million square metres of space from over 600 estates in UK, Ireland and France. IPD publishes the award-winning International Total Occupancy Cost Code.

He leads many of IPD Occupiers’ most important projects. These include the Property Benchmarking Project for the whole Civil Estate of the UK Government. The innovative analysis includes costs, space, user satisfaction, sustainability and building operability indicators. This project builds on the experience IPD has gained with all 160 UK universities, measuring their property performance. He also directs the firm’s work with 450 British further education colleges.

Christopher is Director of Occupier.org and has previously been a board member of the RICS Corporate Real Estate Group and CoreNet Global UK and founded the Society of Property Researchers’ Occupiers Group.