Christina’s interdisciplinary framework and career spans academia, cultural advocacy, business consultancy, and venture capital advisory. She holds an MA, MPhil, and DPhil in Philosophy, alongside professional qualifications in investment management (IMC), a BVCA ESG Diploma, and WSET Level 3 in wine. She is a member of the American Association of Wine Economists.
Her career in higher education included leadership roles in UK institutions, including the University of Sussex and City University London, where she advanced intellectual property commercialisation through government-backed innovation funding, public-private partnerships and blended finance models for the creative industries. She also established an innovation arm to take academic research to market.
As an investment advisor, Christina works with family offices and investors on strategies in renewable energy, clean tech, hospitality, and luxury, and is experienced in embedding sustainability principles and metrics into investment strategies for a selection of VC funds.
Christina brings an international perspective to her projects, shaped by living in three countries. She lectures widely to investment professionals, luxury audiences, hospitality clients, and cultural connoisseurs. She writes for publications, including Apollo, The Art Newspaper, and is the author of Aesthetic Dining: The Art Restaurant Around the World (2021) and Art in Vineyards: Cultivating Culture (2025).
Christina is engaged in the arts as a patron, advisor, and advocate. She is an ambassador for RIBA’s House of Architecture, serves on the Design Museum fundraising committee, advises The Residency, an artist residency support network, and is also non-executive Director of the Sovereign Art Foundation. Recently, she launched a campaign to recognise restaurants as vital historical and cultural spaces, with London as the pilot.
