Following completion of university studies in 1971, like many boomers of the day, Chris went abroad for a number of years. Moving about, he became intrigued by differences and similarities among a host of cultures and languages. After settling for a time in Italy and then in France, he found work as a consultant to European companies engaging with the Anglo American world, by assisting them to bridge invisible but problematic cultural divides. In this work he found himself amid teams, managers and engineers who were being prepared to implement large infrastructure projects, or to conduct high level negotiations in the USA, Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia. Working inside these projects, his fascination with cultural differences morphed into a deep interest in Myth.

Collecting myths, one is astonished to find the same human puzzles being addressed inside cultural silos near and far around the world, recounted in stories ancient and modern that are often quite similar. These coincidences speak to the deep stuff of human experience and shed insight upon the richness of cultures during very ancient times, our social histories, the role of language, the conundrums of our far off ancestors and their efforts to make sense of mysteries we still strive to understand. Chris has tertiary attainments in a broad spread of academic and technological fields, yet it is the world of myth that keeps him in awe.