Christine Batruch
Profile
Sustainability Advisor, Lundin Group.
Ms Batruch, a citizen of Canada and Switzerland, is a historian and lawyer by training, graduate of the University of Toronto and McGill University respectively, admitted as barrister and solicitor at the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Based in Geneva, Ms Batruch has worked in the non-profit, academic and business sectors. She participated in the establishment in Ukraine of a number of non-profit institutions linked to the Soros network of foundations. Concurrently she was liaison officer and assistant professor at the International Academy of the Environment. As VP Corporate Responsibility at Lundin Petroleum, which she joined in 2001, Ms Batruch was responsible for the company's sustainability strategy. As of 2020, Ms Batruch acts as Senior Strategic Advisor to Lundin Energy and to the Lundin family. She acts as speaker in a number of international environmental, social and governance (ESG) conferences and has lectured on ESG issues at international business schools (IMD, IMI-Kyiv, Business School of Lausanne) and universities (Dundee, Geneva, Stockholm).
Ms Batruch is President of the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation (Kyiv), member of the Board of Directors of Josemaria Resources Inc. (Vancouver) and of the Lundin Foundation (Vancouver) and member of the Advisory Board of the International Philanthropic Society (Stockholm). She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of World Energy Law and Business (Oxford University Press) and of the Oil Gas and Energy Law Intelligence.