Christopher Ha is a Partner, Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel of Dalton Investments. Prior to joining Dalton, he built his career in New York City, first as Counsel at the legal and compliance departments of the asset management division of UBS, a Swiss investment bank, and then as Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Oak Hill Advisors, a hedge fund manager with $40+ billion of assets under management.  Mr. Ha previously worked as an investment management attorney in the Financial Services Group of Dechert LLP, an international law firm with more than 900 lawyers, where he served as counsel to global mutual fund complexes established under the 40 Act, private funds and investment advisers in various domestic and international jurisdictions.

Mr. Ha earned a J.D. from Cornell Law School and a B.S. in Business, magna cum laude, from Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was a Senior Scholar, awarded to the top 1% seniors in the business school.  During law school, he also studied and researched international law at Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France and the University of Sydney, Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia.

He is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York. He speaks fluent Korean and Japanese.