Christina Alfonso

Christina Alfonso is a senior advisor to leaders of multiple government and private sector entities, leveraging her distinguished background in financial innovation and entrepreneurship to address issues at the intersection of national security, economic competitiveness, and emerging technologies.

As President of the Council on Global Competition and Innovation (CGCI), she leads an initiative championed by the US Dept of Defense and a coalition of private sector executives. CGCI promotes market-led national security investments, focusing on resilient, security-oriented growth and counter-adversary capital flows.

At DARPA, Christina advises on economic competition, AI integration, and technological innovation in support of U.S. national security interests. She is also responsible for developing and recommending strategies to enhance public-private partnerships and strengthen the domestic innovation ecosystem.

Previously, as co-founder/CFO of Novata, a Microsoft and S&P-backed technology platform, Christina enhanced private market transparency through non-financial data reporting. As co-founder/CEO of Madeira Global (2012-2020), she pioneered values-based investment solutions for the private equity and credit sectors.

She is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executives in National and International Security program. Christina holds an M.B.A. from ESADE Business School (Spain) and a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Fordham University. Christina is a board director of the RWJBH Monmouth Medical Center Foundation and has served on the advisory boards of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle, PathNorth, and the Women's Society for the Economy and Society. She has extensive international experience, most recently in São Paulo, and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.