Christine has over 24 years of global finance experience, including structured finance, project finance, private equity fund, and direct equity investing, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and syndications, corporate finance, and sustainable investing across developed and emerging markets.
Previously, as ADB’s Senior Advisor to the Vice President (Market Solutions), who manages the Private Sector Operations Department and Office of Markets Development and Public-Private Partnerships, she advised on a wide range of strategic, corporate, transactional, and operational matters and mobilized resources to develop markets and upscale climate financing strategically.
Christine led the origination, structuring, and execution of sustainable infrastructure investments, particularly in the energy and urban sectors, within ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department, including co-leading an equity investment as the first multilateral investor into Clifford Capital Holdings Pte. Ltd. cementing ADB’s strategic partnership with one of the region’s leading infrastructure financing platforms.
In ADB’s Guarantees and Syndications Unit, Christine mobilized commercial co-financings into private sector infrastructure, financial sector, and agribusiness projects in Central, South, and East Asia, leveraging various credit enhancement products. Christine contributed to the development of the Southeast Asian bond market through regulatory support, capacity building, and the issuance of inaugural local currency bond guarantees across ASEAN at the Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility.
Christine led investment teams and transactions across multiple sectors, asset classes, and markets based out of New York, Hong Kong, and Manila for financial institutions,i ncluding Citigroup, JPMorgan, Cohen & Steers, AIF Capital, and Lazard.
Christine is a national of the United States. She obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.