Chris Papagianis

Chris Papagianis is the Chief Strategy Officer of Hudson Bay Capital Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund, a role he took in November 2023. Before that he spent nearly eight years as a partner at Paulson & Co. and president of the Paulson Family Foundation, working public markets, private investments, and the firm's government affairs. His path runs through the West Wing - he was Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy under George W. Bush - and through the policy-shop world, where he ran Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute and became one of Washington's most cited voices on housing finance and the unfinished business of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Harvard grad, Peabody Fellow, congressional witness, and a rare operator equally fluent in spreadsheets and statute.