Consultant, curator and networker for music and cultural industries, Christine is a WOMEX Advisor running a broad range of international projects on several continents. She has also created and leads the WOMEX Academy, an innovative capacity-building and fellowship programme for music professionals. She has been involved in the creation and development of events dedicated to music professionals, conventions and festivals such as Porto Musical – Brazil; Circulart – Colombia, Primera Linea – Cuba, Atlantic Music Expo – Cabo Verde; SOTX Music Expo – China and IMEX – Indonesia.

She has also worked as a consultant/trainer for internationalisation of music and music events in Colombia, Senegal, Jamaica, Barbados, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, among others. Christine has also served as an expert for the EU and the UNESCO Creative Cities Network since 2013. Previously, she worked as director of professional music network Zone Franche, where she led the EU-funded ‘ACP Music Festivals Network’ and, before that, was Director of Content & Programmes for WOMEX for nine years.