AVPN Global Conference 2023 | 20 - 22 June 2023

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Christina Ameln
Project Director & Advisor, Vietnam

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Christina Ameln believes in the power of connections to maximise sustainable impact. Christina is a Project Director and Vietnam Advisor for AVPN. She manages the AVPN annual signature event the AVPN Global Conference collaborating with the host partner and leading the internal teams across its 34 markets for a top notch delegate experience and to create further action on positive impact in Asia. The Kuala Lumpur 2023 was the most successful conference to date with over 1300 delegates from 44 countries in which AVPN facilitated over 9,000 connections, and curated 103 sessions. Christina is now working on the Abu Dhabi edition for an even more successful gathering in April. As Vietnam Advisor, Christina guides member companies through their AVPN continuum of engagement and creates meaningful connections for greater impact on social and environmental issues. Also a Sustainability Strategist and Advisor, she supports companies to future-proof by integrating sustainability into their business models. She has worked with corporates; and multilateral and non-profit organizations in Asia and Europe. Prior to consulting and project managing, she was at publicly listed hygiene and forestry company SCA (now Essity and SCA) and drove the company’s CSR engagement internally and externally as CSR Director; and at Hifab International, a consultancy and project management company, Ameln worked as a CSR Specialist. As Senior Manager, Corporate Strategies & Member Services at the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), a not-for-profit corporate membership organization, she worked at mobilizing the private sector in the fight against the three pandemics. This was led by the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, former United States Ambassador to the UN and President Obama’s former special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Christina has an MBA from Nottingham University and a BBA from the University of Kent at Canterbury. A life-long learner, and to focus energy on other items during the height of COVID-19, she consolidated her learning with an online course with Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership on Business & Climate Change: Towards Net Zero. She has sat on the Board of Trustees for the UK headquartered Global Girl Project working on leadership for girls in the Global South from 2021-2023; and on the Board of Advisory for Vietnamese NGO LIN Center for Community Development from 2018-21. Christina writes and talks regularly on sustainability on various platforms such as the Vietnam Investment Review; and was profiled in July’s issue of Forbes Vietnam and BBC News Vietnamese on COP26 in 2021. In building the Vietnam sustainability ecosystem, she also encourages experts to share their thoughts on her blog platform Sustainable Vietnam. Fun fact: Christina is also the author of the Aya & Bobby illustrated children’s books on travel and discovery.