Christian Lee is a Partner at Davies, and leads the Financial Market Infrastructure subsector within the Capital Markets industry. His work focuses on helping financial market infrastructures strengthen resilience, manage risk, and implement solutions that address structural challenges in global markets.
Christian has over 35 years of experience in risk management, with the past two decades dedicated specifically to market infrastructure risk. His background spans risk oversight, regulatory engagement, and the design of risk frameworks that support safe and efficient market operations. This includes extensive work with stock exchanges, central counterparties, clearing organisations, central banks, and major users of market infrastructure.
He provides advisory support on risk management, operational resilience, and the introduction of new infrastructure solutions. A significant aspect of Christian’s work involves educating market participants and regulators on best practice, particularly when solutions are new to a market. He focuses on articulating the commercial and risk‑reduction benefits of these solutions, ensuring stakeholders understand both their purpose and their operational implications.
Christian frequently helps clients navigate misconceptions around market infrastructure, particularly the belief that it represents only a cost. His work demonstrates how effective infrastructure design reduces systemic and operational risk, providing benefits that extend beyond individual institutions to the wider market ecosystem.
He is motivated by complex problem‑solving and the opportunity to introduce solutions that bring measurable improvements to market functioning. To remain current, Christian engages with peers across the industry and appears frequently on specialised panels as well as within the financial press. By training he is a chartered accountant, a foundation that underpins his analytical approach to risk and the financial integrity of market infrastructures.
