PLF Alumni Hour: Strategies to leverage your network: from STG community to global opportunity

• Florence School of Transnational Governance

PLF Alumni Hour

The Policy Leader Fellowship creates powerful networks—both within STG and globally across cohorts and partner institutions. This session, led by PLF alumna Linda Zeilina, focuses on how alumni have strategically activated their networks to unlock career opportunities, partnerships, and collaborations. Our speaker will share concrete tactics for maintaining relationships, identifying opportunities within networks, seeking introductions authentically, and creating mutual value. Whether for job transitions, client acquisition in consultancy, or partnership-building for think tanks, effective networking is often the differentiator. This is peer learning on how to move from "knowing people" to "activating relationships."

About the speaker: Linda Zeilina is the Founder & CEO of the International Sustainable Finance Centre, where she oversees its work on sustainable investing and inclusive economies. Linda focuses on ways how to drive transformational change, and how to develop and implement sustainability initiatives. Previously, Linda was Director at RE-DEFINE, a boutique consultancy and think tank in London. In addition, Linda is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, and until recently was a Think Visegrad Fellow at the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy.

She 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 and Political Science.