Kristine is a lawyer and a Certified Information Privacy Professional for Europe and the US (CIPP/E and CIPP/US). She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and the International Bar Association (IBA). She holds a Master of Laws specialising in Data Protection, Intellectual Property, and Artificial Intelligence from Technische Universität Dresden in Germany and was a recipient of the DAAD Konrad Zuse School of Embedded and Composite A.I. (SECAI) scholarship for her research on the EU AI Act and automated decision making. Before joining WLC, she had over 6 years of experience as a corporate lawyer handling corporate reorganisation, data privacy advisory, M&A, and IPO due diligence.