Christopher Joye
Christopher Joye is an Australian fund manager, financial economist, and entrepreneur.
He is currently a director of Yellow Brick Road Funds Management and a columnist with the Australian Financial Review.
He previously worked with Rismark International, a research house and fund manager with a R&D based patent portfolio, the Reserve Bank of Australia, in special projects, and with Goldman Sachs, in mergers and acquisitions in London and Sydney.
In 2009 The Australian newspaper identified Christopher as one of Australia’s top 10 “Emerging Leaders” in its economics category.
In 2007 Christopher was selected by The Bulletin magazine as one of Australia's "10 Smartest CEOs", and, separately, by BRW Magazine as one of "Australia's Top 10 Innovators".
In February 2009, Christopher was invited by the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations to present innovative policy solutions on the US housing market’s problems to Obama Administration officials.
In 2008 the Rudd Government committed $4 billion (subsequently expanded to $20 billion) to a radical policy proposal first developed by Christopher and Professor Joshua Gansto supply temporary liquidity to Australia’s securitisation market.
Christopher was the principal author of the influential 2003 Prime Minister’s Home Ownership Task Force Report, which was commissioned by John Howard and overseen by Malcolm Turnbull.
Christopher served as a Director of the Menzies Research Centre, a centre-right think-tank, between 2003–07. Prior to taking on his role with the Australian Financial Review, Christopher was one of Business Spectator and Property Observer’s most widely-read columnists, where he has led diverse debates on housing, asset-allocation, banking, media, monetary policy, and superannuation.
Christopher received Joint 1st Class Honours and the University Medal in Economics & Finance from the University of Sydney, where he was a Credit Suisse First Boston Scholar, SIRCA, and University Honours Scholar. He studied at Cambridge University in 2002 and 2003, where he was a Commonwealth Trust scholarship recipient.