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Christina practices international arbitration ('IA') and complex commercial litigation in Baker McKenzie's Toronto office, and is a member of the firm's IA and Global Dispute Resolution Group. She is a committee member of Baker McKenzie’s IA Associates Forum, where she serves the global IA group. In 2011, she completed a secondment in Baker McKenzie's New York office, focusing on IA matters. Christina advises multinational companies and Governments on contractual disputes, jurisdictional disputes, investment treaty disputes, enforcement of international arbitral awards, business torts, and drafting arbitration clauses. She frequently advises on EMI and securities matters. Christina has appeared before all levels of Ontario court, the British Columbia Court of Appeal and before domestic and international arbitral tribunals. She has acted on commercial arbitrations under UNCITRAL, AAA/ICDR, ADRIC, CAA and CPR rules, as well as on investor-state arbitrations under ICSID, UNCITRAL and NAFTA. As an Executive Board Member of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution Young and International (ICDR Y&I), and an Executive Board Member of Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners (YCAP), Christina is an active member of the international arbitration community in Canada and globally. She is also on the panel of arbitrators for ICDR Canada where she has sat as arbitrator. Christina is a graduate of Erasmus University Rotterdam (LLM in public international law) and of the University of Ottawa (JD) where she graduated with a specialization in international law. She obtained her BA from Utrecht University (University College) in the Netherlands. In law school, she was a Senior Editor on the Ottawa Law Review, an oralist in the Vis moot and an oralist in the Philip C. Jessup International Law moot court competition.