Christina Pak
Assistant General Counsel (Law and Policy Reform)
Christina Pak works at the intersection of law, economy and ecology. She specializes in international development finance, law and policy reform, dispute resolution and ESG standards and drives thought leadership on sustainable development issues. Christina is currently Assistant General Counsel (Law and Policy Reform) at the Asian Development Bank and manages the Office of General Counsel’s Law and Policy Reform Program which designs and implements legal and judicial reform technical assistance projects across the Asia and the Pacific region. Christina oversees a diverse portfolio in the areas of private sector development, regional cooperation and integration, green transition, digital transformation and gender equality.
In her previous role as a project counsel at ADB, Christina worked on complex multi-sector projects across the Central and West, Southeast and East Asia regions. She also served as ADB’s Accountability Mechanism Policy Counsel advising the Board of Directors, Office of the Compliance Review Panel and Office of the Special Project Facilitator. Prior to joining ADB, Christina was a legal counsel and vice president for markets and international banking at a major UK bank based in Singapore and practiced as a debt capital markets and structured finance associate at leading law firms in New York City.
She is currently a Steering Committee Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is a CEDR-accredited mediator. Christina is a US-qualified lawyer, admitted in the States of New York and New Jersey. She holds a Juris Doctor from Rutgers–Newark School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in International Environmental Studies from Rutgers University.