Linda Zeilina

About

Linda is the Founder & CEO of ISFC, where she oversees its work on sustainability strategies, sustainable investing, and change management.

Linda is a Member of ESG Committee at ARX Equity Partners, a private equity fund based in Czechia and in 2024, Linda joined the European Investment Bank's (EIB) Women Climate Leaders’ Network.

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 is also a Member of the Agora Energiewende Council for Europe, and until recently, she was a non-executive director at a London-based logistics startup, Pedal Me, and a Fellow at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London.

Linda serves as 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 part of 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 change management, 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 is an alumna of the University of Glasgow, McGill University and the London School of Economics.

Asks and Offers

Asks: The main things that are useful for me currently is links/ intros to additional philanthropic funds or people working at them; connections to investment funds or businesses interested in Central Europe; experts on sustainable finance that would like to collaborate on projects or speak at our summit

Offers: I am happy to do intros and potentially, time permitting, assist with some tasks or projects on an ad hoc basis