Chris Liddell

In March 2018 he was picked to replace Rick Dearborn as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.

In January 2017 he was appointed as Assistant to the President for Strategic Initiatives in Donald Trump's White House, on a salary of $30,000. He was appointed to the Office of American Innovation (OAI) when it was established on March 27, 2017, by virtue of his White House position. He was one of the four-person operational team of the OAI led by Jared Kushner, as of July 2017, where he was focusing on federal IT modernization.

In 2017, Chris and his brother John Liddell donated $1 million to Mount Albert Grammar. Later that year, Liddell donated $450,000 to Auckland University to fund a postgraduate scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford.

In the 2016 New Year Honours, Liddell was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business and philanthropy.

In 2012, Liddell was executive director of transition planning for the Romney Presidential Campaign. Liddell is a recognized authority on presidential transitions and the author of Romney Readiness Project: Retrospectives and Lessons Learned. He also was a director and treasurer of the Romney for President fundraising campaign, a joint fundraising vehicle with the Republican National Committee (RNC).

In 2010 he was awarded New Zealand Business Leader of the Year.

In January 2010 Liddell joined General Motors (GM) as CFO and led the company's global finance operations, including the successful $23 billion GM initial public offering (IPO), at the time the largest in history. Previously, Liddell was a senior vice president and CFO of Microsoft, where, from 2005 to December 2009, he was responsible for leading their worldwide finance organization. His responsibilities included overseeing corporate strategy, acquisitions, treasury activities, tax planning, accounting and reporting, internal audits and investor relations. Prior to Microsoft, from 2003 to 2005, Liddell served as CFO of International Paper. Since 2014, he has been working as the CFO of WME-IMG, a privately held company, in the media, sports and entertainment industry.

From 1999 to 2002, he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Carter Holt Harvey, an Asian Pacific forest products firm, then New Zealand's second largest listed company with exports to Japan, China and South Korea. He had been CFO of Carter Holt Harvey from 1995 to 1998.

In 1995, Liddell trained for and completed the 1995 IRONMAN New Zealand Triathlon.

He started his career working from 1983 to 1995 as an investment banker and rose to joint CEO and managing director of CS First Boston NZ.

Christopher Pell Liddell CNZM (born April 24, 1958) is a New Zealand-born American businessman and philanthropist, currently serving as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Coordination in the Trump Administration. Earlier in the administration, he served as Assistant to the President for Strategic Initiatives.