Christopher Chaplin is Jamaica’s Honorary Consul in Philadelphia. His appointment by the Government of Jamaica through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade became effective on April 2, 2019. He was elected President of the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia, the oldest consular association in the United States and which serves members from 72 countries. His term of office began on January 1, 2023.

Mr. Chaplin is Vice President. Portfolio Management at Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) where he leads a team that manages over $400 million in real estate and business loans in the City of Philadelphia. He serves as a Member of the Private Capital Oversight Committee (PCOC) of the Development Bank of Jamaica.

He is a Commissioner on the Mayor’s Commission on African and Caribbean Immigrant Affairs for the City of Philadelphia and served on the Transition Team of Mayor Jim Kenney on the Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Committee.

Mr. Chaplin is the Founder of the Canada Hall Scholarship Fund and is the Founding President of the St. George’s College Old Boys Association of The Northeast. He is also a Founder of Caribbean Gives!, a fund aimed at helping Caribbean undocumented domestic violence victims in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

He earned a BSc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and a MBA from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.