Christopher Ecclestone is the equities strategist at Hallgarten & Company. Prior to that he was the head of research at a Supply-side thinktank in New Jersey which he had joined in 2001. Before joining the thinktank, he was the head of research at the esteemed Argentine equity research house, Buenos Aires Trust Company, from 1991 until 2001. Prior to his arrival in Argentina, he worked in London beginning in 1985 as a corporate finance and equities analyst and as a freelance consultant on the restructuring of the securities industry. Earlier, he worked for the Federal and State governments in Australia. He is a native of Melbourne, Australia. He graduated in 1981 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.