Since 2008 Christian Ralison is a Director and Financial Controller of Luxembourg entities affiliated to the H&F Funds. These entities provide supervision services to the European investment structures. Christian serves as a Director in the various holding structures. In this role he supervises issues such as the structuring of the transactions, implementation of management incentive plans and exit strategies but also advises on developing and formalizing the corporate governance processes for the entities.
Prior to that, Christian held senior management functions in UCITS fund administration notably with large US investment management firms. Before joining the Funds industry, he started his career in audit, both in external and internal roles, before moving on to a controller function in an alloy trading company.
Christian studied business in France and Belgium with an area of concentration in Finance. More recently he qualified as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). He broadened his skills set for his board functions by obtaining qualifications in Risk Management from ICHEC/LLLC and the certification ‘Risk Management - Investment Fund’ from ALRIM (Luxembourg Association for Risk management). In 2019, he attended the International Directors’ Program at INSEAD and earned a Certification in Corporate Governance. He became an ILA (Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs) Certified Director the same year.
Christian speaks French and English. He is married and has 2 children.