Greg Christie was appointed Jamaica's 4th Contractor General in 2005 and has since transformed the Office of the Contractor General into what is now widely regarded as one of Jamaica's most effective, efficient and respected State agencies, and its leading anti-corruption institution.
Prior to his appointment as the Contractor General, he worked for 13 years as a senior management executive with one of the world's then leading integrated aluminum companies, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation.
Throughout his entire career with Kasier, Mr. Christie headed the company's Jamaica corporate office at a time when Kaiser was the country's single largest foreign private investor and tax-payer. His last position with Kaiser was as its Florida based Assistant General Counsel and Global Commodities Business Unit Vice-President for Government Affairs.
Before joining Kaiser, Mr. Christie successfully developed his own start-up credit reporting company in Jamaica and worked extensively in academia as a University of the West Indies (UWI) law programme director and lecturer - an appointment which he assumed when he was only age 24, making him the UWI Faculty of Law's then youngest law director.
He has lectured for 10 years on the 3 main regional campuses of the UWI in the disciplines of criminal law, corporate law, public international law, insurance law, aviation law, law of the sea, and the law and legal systems of the Commonwealth Caribbean. He has also served for 3 years, at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad, as a tutor in insurance, banking, credit and securities law.
Mr. Christie is also a former Caribbean based commercial and international law attorney and consultant. He has consulted with a wide range of private and public sector organizations, including the United Nations, the European Union and the US-AID, and has worked on professional assignments in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Antigua, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada and St. Lucia.
Mr. Christie is the holder of the LL.M. Master of Laws Degree in corporate, insurance and international law from the University of London, the LL.B. (Hons.) Degree from the UWI, and the Certificate in Legal Education (CLE) from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad.
He is also a United States certified ISO 9002 International Quality Systems Lead Auditor and Change Management specialist. Mr. Christie has completed several business executive development programmes and has attended the Haas Business School, University of California at Berkeley and the Darden Business School, University of Virginia. He is a Government of Jamaica national law scholar and a UWI postgraduate law scholar.
In his functional capacity as Jamaica's Contractor General, Mr. Christie has developed a broad expertise in anti-corruption and good-governance methodologies, best practices and operational strategies. He has participated in, or made presentations at, major international anti-corruption, law-enforcement and procurement conferences in Singapore, Athens, Bangkok, London, Washington, Kingston and Port of Spain.
He is a former Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Jamaica and a former Member, Secretary and Director of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew, Jamaica.
Mr. Christie has been admitted into practice as a Barrister-at-Law in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and as an Attorney-at-Law in Jamaica, and is qualified to practice law in all Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions.
