Christian Friis Bach works as an author, lecturer, consultant and journalist. He is on leave from a position as Associate Professor in International Economics/Development Economics at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. He holds a M.Sc. in Agronomy from the same university, with the main emphasis in chemistry. In 1996 he took a Ph.D. in International Economics. Moreover, he holds a supplementary degree in Journalism from the Danish School of Journalism.

 

He has worked as a journalist at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation; at the International Trade Division of the World Bank; the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen; the Danish Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Economics and as consultant for the World Bank, the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the EU, the UNDP and others. For several years he acted as instructor at the annual course in global general equilibrium models held by the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), USA.

 

In his spare time Christian Friis Bach has been active in a number of Non-Governmental Organisations, such as Amnesty International, Third World Import and Butik Salam. In 1993-94 he took the initiative to establish a Fair Trade organisation in Denmark (Max Havelaar) and received Fords Initiative Price. From 1997 to 2001 he was chairman of MS-Denmark (Danish Association for International Co-operation). He has travelled in a number of developing countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

 

He is a member of the central board in the Social-Liberal Party, board member of the International Institute for Sustainable Development and Member of the Scientific Committee, WWF Denmark.

 

Christian Friis Bach is born in 1966. He is married, has three children and lives on a small farm with 33 hectares close to Copenhagen.