Christopher Stone is an American criminal justice expert[1] and Professor of Practice of Public Integrity at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.
[2] He was the President of the Open Society Foundations from 2012–2017, the global grantmaking network founded by George Soros.
Prior to assuming that position in July 2012,[3] he served as the Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2005–2012.
Before joining the Harvard Kennedy School faculty, Stone was president and director of the Vera Institute of Justice.
He also initiated the Institute's work on justice reform in South Africa, Russia, Chile, and China.