Christopher Gilchrist

Christopher Gilchrist is currently a Sr. Managing Partner of The Columbiae Group, leading the policy and economics advisory practice and oversees the firm’s research institute. He joined The Columbiae Group from Forrester Research, where he was a principal leading the technology economics research and advisory practices. Prior to his tenure at Forrester, he was a director at PwC leading frontier technology evaluations for the risk and regulatory practice.

Christopher currently is a sr. advisor at the Project Management Institute and a former advisor to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. His work focuses on how technology advancement shapes the future of work and evolves economic risk, value-add, and productivity, advising governments, industries, and organizations on technology advancement and the impact to the development and performance of capital and labor. His holds a bachelors of science from the University of Oklahoma, masters of science from Columbia University, with further distinctions in SixSigma from Dartmouth College.

Christopher’s current research:

Economic Anthropology

• Post-Industrial Policy: Laws of Compute v. of Nature
• Future of Work: Division of Labor v. of Knowledge
• Digital Sovereignty: Computing Homogeneity v. Cognitive Heterogeneity

Endogenous Growth in Firms

• Future of Productivity: Capability’s Scope v. Competency’s Scale
• Productive Competency: Scarcity v. Abundance
• Productive Capability: Substitutes v. Complements
• Labor Productivity: Task Automation v. Skill Augmentation
• Capital Productivity: Optimal Allocation v. Optimal Production