About CHRISTINA

Christina is a social scientist with research and policy expertise in gender equality and education, education for climate action, and sport for development. She is the co-editor of Education for Climate Action: Toward an SDG 4.7 Roadmap For Systems Change and co-author of What Works in Girls’ Education: Evidence for the World’s Best Investment. She has co-authored several agenda-setting reports in girls’ education and climate change, and has led or advised several global girls’ education initiatives. She is formerly a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a 36x36 Transformation Fellow with the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, the Schumacher Institute, and the Collective Leadership Institute.

Christina has a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota and an M.A., Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.