About

As the first lawyer at Folketrygdfondet, the state-owned company that manages Norway’s government pension fund, Christina Stray knew she had to pave the way and structure the function to make herself a relevant and irreplaceable element of the business. Stray accomplished this by positioning herself on the board of the recruitment of the CFA Institute, a global association of investment professionals, and becoming fully engaged and involved on issues of a technological nature. Amongst her most notable accomplishments in the last two years, Stray has participated in group-making proposals within the Norwegian Parliament, contributing to new legalisation regarding capital markets transparency rules. Prior to this role Stray spent a large amount of her career in private practice, serving as an attorney at law for Oslo Børs and a four year period at Wiershold, Mellbye & Bech. Stray also had a stint undertaking general internal legal work at the Oslo Stock Exchange with a focus on takeover mergers. Stray concedes that leading the business as the only lawyer in a flat organisation requires a great knowledge of the company infrastructure and direct knowledge of how the market develops, she accomplishes this by working closely with a variety of professionals in different departments on agreements and internal guidelines. With her legal team Stray has also developed an additional compliance department which is fully equipped and trained to deal with all relevant issues.