Born in Canada in 1959, Christine Batruch is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and McGill University in Montreal, where she obtained degrees in Civil and Common Law.  In 1989 she qualified as barrister and solicitor of the Law Society of Upper Canada in Ontario Canada.

Since then, Christine Batruch as been based in Geneva and has worked in the non-profit, academic and business sectors. From 1990 onward, she worked as a consultant for companies interested in entering the Ukrainian market. From 1992-1995, she participated in the establishment in Ukraine of a number of non-profit institutions linked to the Soros network of foundations. From 1995-1999, she worked at the International Academy of the Environment as executive assistant to the director and assistant professor. She joined Lundin Oil in 1999 and became Vice President Corporate Responsibility at Lundin Petroleum in 2002. She is chairwoman of the Board of the Institute for Management Development-Kyiv, member of the Board of the International Management Institute-Kyiv and of the Fondation Vidrodgenia (Geneva), and member of the Working Party on International Legal and Commercial Practice (WP5) of the UN Economic Commission for Europe. Since 2004, Christine Batruch also acts as CSR associate editor of OGEL, an on-line oil and gas journal.