Christina is European Species Programme Officer at BirdLife Europe and Central Asia. She began working for BirdLife in 2013 as European Research Assistant, implementing the Wildlife Comeback in Europe study, and went on to work on the European Red List of Birds. Prior to joining BirdLife, Christina completed her PhD at the University of East Anglia on Avian Land-Use Associations in the Eastern Mediterranean, and spent time as a nature conservation and biodiversity policy analysis intern at the Institute for European Environmental Policy.