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Meet the Fellows - Christopher Kutarna
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Christopher Kutarna

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  • 2007-08
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  • United Kingdom
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  • Oxford
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  • Oxford Martin School Fellow
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  • University of Oxford
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  • Writer, Public Speaker, Consultant, Entrepreneur

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  • Consulting, Entrepreneurship (including social), Finance / Economics, Journalism, Politics / Policy
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  • English, French, Mandarin
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  • consulting, entrepreneurship, politics, public engagement, public management, public speaking, writing
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Impact Statement

Chris creates, often through his voice and words; sometimes by convening like-minded people; always with the ambition to make things better; never knowing what he’ll do next.

Biography

Christopher is an is an author, public speaker, entrepreneur and researcher. He is a two-time Governor General’s Medalist, a Commonwealth Scholar and a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School with a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford. He divides his time between Oxford, Beijing and Regina. 

Chris is the author of Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance (Martin’s Press and Bloomsbury: 2016). In his best-selling book, Dr. Kutarna makes sense of our times and offers much-needed historical perspective to help us all navigate toward humanity’s best future. His prior works include the best-selling Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything (2008), for which Chris was the lead China researcher and drafter; and his first novel, Today is Blue (forthcoming), which China’s largest-circulation newspaper dubbed “a 21st century Joy Luck Club” and which one of Canada’s leading sinologists called “a must-read for Westerners with a serious need to know modern China.”

A former consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, then entrepreneur, Chris lived in China for several years, speaks Mandarin, and remains a regular op-ed contributor to one of China’s top-ranked news magazines.

Christopher graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University of Oxford, England and also holds an Honours degree in Commerce from Carleton University, Canada.

Links:

  • Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance (video)
  • In an Age of Discovery, It Takes Real Guts to Be Optimistic
  • We’re living in an age full of possibilities. So why do so many of us feel like losers?
As a Fellow

At Sauvé House, Chris sought to unearth new insights into the relationships between entrepreneurship, wealth creation, poverty and giving: public equity was the result. Public equity is an innovative corporate ownership model that puts the profits of consumer goods companies into the service of under-funded social agendas. The first venture to test the model is Moniker, Inc., a rapidly growing online luxury menswear studio that Christopher launched shortly after completing the Sauvé program.

In October 2016, Chris presented Canada in our Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of the Second Renaissance at Sauvé House, as part of the Foundation’s Jeanne Sauvé Forum events. 

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