Christopher Weafer

Senior Partner, Macro-Advisory Limited
Christopher Weafer is the founding partner of Macro-Advisory Ltd, an independent macro consultancy which provides macro-economic, political and business trend advice for business managers and investors working in Russia, the C.I.S., Iran and across the broader Eurasia region, including Mongolia. He has written extensively about all of these countries. Christopher has worked in Russia and the CIS/Eurasia region for almost twenty years. Most recently he was voted the best Policy Forecaster for 2016 by Focus Economics. He was also voted best investment strategist in Russia-CIS for 2013/’14 by investors in separate polls carried out by Thomson Reuters Extel and Institutional Investor magazine. He has regularly placed in the top three of these respective polls over the past fifteen years. Before leaving to co-found Macro Advisory, Christopher held the position of Chief Strategist at Sberbank-CIB, Russia's largest bank and one of the biggest banks in Europe. Prior to that he served for four years as Chief Strategist with Uralsib Financial Corporation and for five years with Alfa Bank, two of Russia's largest privately owned financial groups. His first role in the region was as Head of Research with Troika Dialog, a privately owned investment bank, from June 1998. He held that position for over four years. Christopher is the author of a wide variety of published articles about Russia, Central Asia, and the Eurasia region and about macro energy trends.
The impact of sanctions on Russia and the mining sector.

The imposition of sanctions against Russia in 2014 has had both a positive and negative effect. It has been harder for companies to get funding from western banks and investors while the perception of Russia risk has increased. On the other hand, the sanctions, coming at a time when commodity prices have been low, have forced the government to start modernizing the economy and to better position the country. What does mean for the mining sector?
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