CEO, International Sustainable Finance Centre (ISFC)

Biography

Linda is the Founder & CEO of International Sustainable Finance Centre (ISFC), where she oversees its work on sustainability strategies, sustainable investing, and international ESG standardisation efforts. Linda is a Member of the European Investment Bank's (EIB) Women Climate Leaders Network launched in 2024. ISFC is a member institution of the EU's Platform on Sustainable Finance., where it advises on the usability of the EU Taxonomy and the wider sustainable finance framework. Linda is also an Obama Europe Leader and part of the Obama Foundations network. Linda is a Fellow at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London, a non-executive director at a London-based logistics startup, Pedal Me, and a Member of the Agora Energiewende Council for Europe. She is also an Advisory Board member at the Polish Sustainable Investment Forum (PolSIF), Romanian Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (RoSIF) and the Czech Sustainable Investing Forum (CzechSIF). In 2021, Linda spent a few months as a Policy Leader Fellow at the EUI's School of Transnational Governance in Florence, where she focused on the EU sustainable finance rules and the role of impact investing. Linda is now working with the Florence School of Banking and Finance on climate-related prudential supervision and green bonds. Previously, Linda was a Director at Re-Define, a London-based boutique consultancy working on advising major financial sector actors across Europe and in the US on climate finance and sustainability integration. In the past, Linda's work has focused on ways to drive transformational change, and how to develop and implement internal corporate sustainability initiatives. Over the years, she has worked as an advisor to prominent politicians, large asset managers, pension funds and European investment funds. Linda has been honoured as a New Security Leader by the Warsaw Security Forum and a Future European Leader by the Prague European Summit. Linda is an alumna of the University of Glasgow, McGill University and the London School of Economics.