As Director for Strategic Engagement & Communications at CIFF, Linda leads CIFF’s global gender and youth advocacy portfolio and engagement in a number of multi-stakeholder platforms, including CIFF’s co-leadership of the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy & SRHR. She also oversees a new cross-organizational initiative, focused on mainstreaming diversity, equity and inclusion across CIFF’s people and grant-making strategies, and partnerships.

Linda has worked on global health, trade and development issues for more than 15 years, including at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Development, the UN Development Program in New York and as an EU public affairs and communications professional in Brussels. Linda has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s Degree in European and French politics from King’s College London and Sciences Po Paris. A German and Algerian national, she is fluent in German, French, English and Spanish.