Christina McGuire is a U.S. and Russian-trained lawyer with extensive experience in the legal, government and non-profit sectors. She worked at the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia in the late 1990s and subsequently practiced corporate law at Chadbourne & Parke LLP (New York, Moscow) and securities law at Allen & Overy (Moscow).
Before earning her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her LL.B. (J.D. equivalent) from the Griboyedov Institute of International Law and Economics in Moscow, Christina graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in Russian Literature (Phi Beta Kappa). She is licensed to practice law in New York and California.
Christina is fluent in English and Russian and also works in Spanish, German and French.