Christopher Stoakes has been a City insider for over 25 years, as a financial journalist, partner in a City law firm and a management consultant.

Chris was a scholar at Charterhouse and at Worcester College, Oxford where he read law. He qualified as a solicitor at Freshfields (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer). He subsequently edited Global Investor, Risk Financier and International Financial Law Review among other finance publications and for eight years wrote the ‘Financial Lawyer’ column for Euromoney.

He has been by-lined in more than 30 business magazines and in most of the quality nationals. Chris was the marketing partner in a mid-sized City law firm, the head of legal training at an international law firm and a founder of Sherwood PSF Consulting Limited.

He is a qualified teacher and has held senior visiting positions at Nottingham Law School and the College of Law. Chris is the author of All you need to know about the City and All you need to know about Commercial Awareness, also published by Longtail.