Kristen is an adviser and analyst on international trade regulation, law and policy, specialising in regional trade agreements and arrangements, technical regulation and services trade.

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She has over 15 years of experience advising organisations, government and industry in the APEC region on focusing on technical regulation and controls, services trade, trade facilitation, investment, environmental goods and services, and supply chain risk.

Clients have included international organisations (the OECD, the APEC Secretariat, the Asian Development Bank and the ASEAN Secretariat); regional governments (DFAT, Austrade, the Viet Nam Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office) and Australian and international businesses. She has conducted joint research with institutions in Australia, Korea, The Philippines, Thailand and China.

 

Kristen has designed, managed and participated in over thirty capacity building activities to assist developing countries implement trade policy obligations and manage their impacts. She designed and led trade technical assistance programs for officials in ASEAN and APEC developing countries on projects funded by AusAID, UNDP, the Japanese Ministry of Trade and the British Development Agency. She has ground consulting experience in Australia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Korea.

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Kristen has a Masters degree in international law from the University of Melbourne and undergraduate degrees in Law and in Economics from the Australian National University.