Christopher Hawgood is a 61-year-old Englishman who lives in Copenhagen in Denmark. He was born and brought up in England, and he was educated in business management and personnel management at the Oxford Brookes University. His wife is a Danish biophysicist, and he has a son aged 16, and a daughter aged 14.

Christopher Hawgood works for many Danish hospitals (especially in the west of Denmark) as Recruitment Consultant and  Healthcare Management Adviser. In recent years, his main work has been recruiting specialists from Poland for hospitals in Denmark. In his efforts to find Polish specialist, Christopher Hawgood has been greatly assisted by Regional Chambers of Physicians (Izba Lekarska) in Warszawa and other parts of Poland.