Christina Natalia Widjaja works as a Project Associate in the Climate Risk Analytics Team at MCII. She is supporting project management activities for several donors such as UNOPS and GIZ. She is currently conducting comprehensive climate risk analysis studies applying the Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) methodology across diverse landscapes. Additionally, she is building a collaborative alliance with UNU-EHS to strategically identify relevant project proposal calls and contribute to fundraising.

Prior to this, she gained experience in Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation, and Social Protection while working as a student assistant at VARMAP/MCII since March 2020 for the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) Roadmap project and the Climate and Disaster Risk Analytics Tool for Adaptive Social Protection (CADRAT) project. Both projects are part of the "Social Protection Programme" in Indonesia led by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), in close collaboration with the Indonesian Government. One of the main results is the Hazard, Exposure, and Vulnerability assessment across regions and provinces in Indonesia, in which she co-authored.

She holds an MSc. in Natural Resources Management from the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and a BSc. in Chemistry from Universitas Indonesia. Before starting her master’s studies, Christina had built a successful career spanning nearly 11 years in operations’ project and change management, strategic planning, budgeting, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation within a multinational company with international exposure such as in Hong Kong and Switzerland.