CHRISTINA BALIS
PRINCIPAL
Christina Balis leads Avascent's European operations. Based in Paris, Christina supports US and international clients operating or looking to expand to Europe and adjacent geographies. She has experience providing strategic advisory services, assessing market opportunities, and supporting merger and acquisition (M&A) activities across a diverse set of defense, civil government, and commercial markets. Christina brings unique perspectives into her client engagements, informed by first-hand experience in consulting, corporate management, public policy, and academic research.
Christina worked for a number of years as a consultant with Avascent, through the firm’s successful buyout of DFI Corporate Services in 2007, before transitioning to industry. Prior to rejoining Avascent in late 2011, Christina worked as vice president for strategy and corporate development at Serco Inc., the US subsidiary of international service company Serco Group plc. Prior to her consulting career, she was a fellow in the Europe Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, DC-based think tank.
Christina holds a B.A. in European Business Administration from the ESB Business School (Reutlingen, Germany) and Middlesex University (London, UK) and a M.A. and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Bologna, Italy, and Washington, DC).