ESG Specialist,
PwC Australia

Linda is an ESG, sustainability and sustainable finance expert at PwC Australia with more than a decade of international experience in consulting on sustainability, climate change and environmental issues for decision-makers in public and private sectors, including financial services providers internationally.

Linda is an appointed member (in her personal expert capacity) of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, the high-level technical advisory body to the European Commission, which is providing expert inputs for the development of EU’s Sustainable Finance Framework including the EU taxonomy of sustainable economic activities and sustainability disclosure regime for financial entities and funds.

Linda is likewise appointed to EFRAG expert group tasked with the development of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Standards implementing the upcoming EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Linda also co-chairs a working group on incentivising investment in natural capital in the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) working group on Nature, engages with the current TNFD development process and is appointed to the Technical Advisory Group for the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) sustainable finance taxonomy project.

At PwC Linda advises clients across financial services, tech, primary industries and retail on their ESG strategies, approaches and alignment with mandatory obligations as well sustainable finance investor and other stakeholder expectations. In her academic capacity, Linda is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of New South Wales, researching the integration of natural capital into sustainable finance frameworks.