Chris Malone

About Chris

Chris is the Managing Partner of Panl, a strategic advisory firm focused on projects in Southeast Asia that have high social impact.

Prior to Panl, Chris was the Global Head of Economic Development and the Managing Partner of Vietnam for the Boston Consulting Group. He sits on the Economic Advisory Council for the Government of Vietnam within the Ministry of Planning and Investment, and is a board member of Fulbright University Vietnam, the country’s first independent non-profit university.

Chris has spent more than twenty years working with senior leaders of government in Asia, including a number of heads of state. His work has focused on defining and implementing national economic plans, and building institutional and human capacity that can sustain economic growth and promote innovation. This has included the transformation of many state-owned enterprises that are seeking to modernize and adapt to the opportunities and challenges of technology-driven disruption.

Chris has spent over a decade working in Vietnam and took up the position as managing partner in 2015. During this period Chris has worked with the Central Government of Vietnam on a number of critical policy oriented initiatives, including the development of the national innovation strategy, and creating a framework for managing the sharing economy. Working with provincial government leaders, he has lead the development of economic strategies and plans for six provinces, increasing domestic and foreign investment and opening new avenues of growth.

Chris is a British national, growing up in Hong Kong and graduating in Classics from Oxford University. He subsequently completed executive leadership courses in Finance & Accounting and Mergers & Acquisitions at the National University of Singapore, Macroeconomics at London Business School, and Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He maintains an interest in wine and has toured many of the world’s great producing regions from the Napa Valley to the Margaret River, studying wine tasting along the way.