Christine Maxwell

In 2011, she was appointed an IPv6 Fellow of the Internet Protocol version 6 Forum in recognition of her contributions to support the promotion, deployment, and technology advantages of version 6 around the world.

After Magellan was acquired by competing search engine Excite, in 1996, she went on to co-found Chiliad: a software company involved in the advance of on-demand, massively scalable, intelligent mining of structured and unstructured data through the use of natural language search technologies. The firm's software was behind the data search technology used by the FBI's counterterrorism data warehouse.

Maxwell is the creator and co-founder of Magellan, one of the first professionally curated online search/reference guides to Internet content. In 1992 she created and co-authored one of the first hard-copy reference guides to the Internet: New Riders Official Internet Yellow Pages and The McKinley Internet Yellow Pages; both published by Macmillan Publishers in 1994 and 1995 respectively.

In June 1986 she married physicist and educator Roger Malina of Berkeley, California. Maxwell and Malina have three children, sons Xavier (born 1988) and Yuri (born 1990) and daughter Giselle (born 1991). Maxwell has a second residence in Meyreuil, a village near Aix-en-Provence.

From September 1974 to June 1976 Maxwell worked as a middle-school teacher at Shepherd's Hill Middle School in Blackbird Leys, Oxford.

In September 1973 she entered Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education near Oxford. She graduated in June 1974 with a Post Graduate Teaching Certificate.

Maxwell was an editor for Pergamon Press Publishers, owned by her father Robert, in the early 1970s.

In the late 1970s, she became a school editor for A. Wheaton & Company in Exeter, England. Maxwell is the author of The Pergamon Dictionary of Perfect Spelling, first published by Pergamon Press Ltd. in 1977. The book became an international bestseller, proving valuable for dyslexic learners. Maxwell's book has been republished several times: in 2005 under the title Dictionary of Perfect Spelling by Barrington Stoke Publishers, in 2007 under the title Spell it Right by Berlitz, and most recently as the School Spelling Dictionary in 2012 by Barrington Stoke.

After completing her high schooling at Milham Ford Grammar School in Oxford, England, in 1969, she entered Pitzer College, Claremont, California, from which she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts with a major in Latin American Studies and Sociology in May 1972.

Christine Maxwell (born 16 August 1950) is a British internet content pioneer and educator, best known as the creator and co-founder of Magellan. Maxwell also co-founded the software company Chiliad and is the author of several books. She is the Program Manager of Learning Technologies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Christine Maxwell is the daughter of Elisabeth Maxwell, a French-born Holocaust scholar, and Robert Maxwell, a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor. She was born in Maisons Laffitte, France, on August 16, 1950. Her father was Jewish and her mother was of Huguenot descent. One of nine children, siblings include her twin sister Isabel Maxwell, brothers Kevin Maxwell and Ian Maxwell, and notorious Jeffrey Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell. Her mother stated that all of her children were brought up Anglican. In 1960, her family resided at Headington Hill Hall, where the offices to Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press were also located.