Mr Christophe Michels is the Managing Director of the Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC). He helped establish IBBC in 2009 and joined its Board of Directors in 2017. He has extensive experience working with British, Iraqi and US government entities, international organisations, think tanks, and the British, Iraqi, American and German Chambers of Commerce.
Prior to joining IBBC, Christophe headed Baroness Nicholson’s political office in the European Parliament. In 2008, he worked as a consultant to the Iraqi Council of Representatives for the European Parliament. He also observed the 2012 elections in Yemen and volunteered for the AMAR Foundation in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and the United States, as well as for the Russian Booker Prize in Moscow. Since 2009, he has served as an aide to Baroness Nicholson in the House of Lords and has supported her work at the Council of Europe and with the APPG on Foreign Affairs.
In 2023, Christophe established the Ukraine Britain Business Council, which he continues to run with a team of volunteers. In 2025, he founded the Syria Britain Business Council and, in 2026, joined the Board of Trustees of the AMAR Foundation.
Christophe graduated from the Lycée Franco-Allemand in Paris and studied History and Art History in Berlin, Amsterdam and Düsseldorf. He is also a Senior Fellow of Humanity in Action.