About Christine
Christine Bader is the author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil (2014), and an adjunct faculty member in Linfield University’s master of science in business program.
From 2015-17 she was director of social responsibility at Amazon, where she built a global team working to ensure respect for the rights of workers in Amazon supply chains and operations. From 2011-15 her posts included advisor to BSR and visiting scholar at Columbia University, where she co-taught human rights and business.
Christine's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and numerous other publications. She has given talks to conferences, companies, and universities around the world, including a TED talk in July 2014.
After earning her MBA from Yale in 2000, Christine joined BP and proceeded to work in Indonesia, China, and the U.K., managing the social impacts of some of the company’s largest projects in the developing world. In 2006, she created a part-time pro bono project as advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for business and human rights, a role she took up full-time in 2008 until the U.N. mandate ended in 2011.
Christine has also served as a corps member with City Year, a special assistant to the New York City Mayor’s Chief of Staff and Deputy Mayor, and a teaching fellow in community service at Phillips Academy Andover. She was a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and currently sits on the advisory panel for Diversity in Sustainability.
Christine played squash and rugby at Amherst College and competed in the 2002 World Ultimate Frisbee Club Championships, but now finds her athletic glory coaching high school girls rugby and caddying for her son. For 2018-19, she lived in Indonesia with her family as part of the Green School Bali community. She now lives in McMinnville, Oregon, where she serves on the city’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Committee, and continues to seek a way of life that is sustainable in every dimension.