Linda Zeilina-Cross

International Advisory Committee Member

Linda is the Founder & CEO of International Sustainable Finance Centre (ISFC), where she oversees its work on change management, sustainability integration and international ESG data standardisation efforts.

Linda is a Member of the EIB’s Women Climate Leaders Network and a Member of ESG Committee at ARX Equity Partners, a private equity fund. In 2023, Linda was selected as an Obama Europe Leader, and she joined the EU’s Platform on Sustainable Finance to advise on the usability of the EU Taxonomy and the wider sustainable finance framework. Linda serves as an Assistant Professor at the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the EUI in Florence and a Member of the Agora Energiewende Council for Europe. Until recently, Linda was a Fellow at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and a non-executive director at a London-based sustainable logistics start-up.

Linda is also an Advisory Board member at the Polish, Czech, and Romanian Sustainable Investment and Finance Associations. In the past, Linda was a Director at Re-Define, a boutique consultancy advising major financial sector actors on climate finance and sustainability integration. Linda is an alumna of the University of Glasgow, McGill University, and the London School of Economics.