Chris Barton works as a project manager in the President's office, handling ASU's work with the Polynesian Voyaging Society and other cultural and education groups in Hawaiʻi.
Chris holds a PhD in Innovation in Global Development, as well as a Bachelor’s in Sustainability and a Masters in Global Affairs and Management. He is interested in how knowledge is created, shared, and applied in the context of complex, large-scale problems such as sustainability and global development. Specifically, he is interested in how corporations ‘know,’ what knowledge they consider valid and why, and how this knowledge informs their actions with regard to development.
When not thinking about business, development, and epistemology, Chris runs an import company, which helps artisan mescal producers in Mexico reach the American market.
Chris has previously worked as an entrepreneur, a consultant, a writer and editor, and a middle school teacher. He has experience working in Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil, and Germany.