Linda works as a Project Associate within MCII’s Climate Risk Finance Solutions team. She is primarily involved in the Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Program (PICAP), as well as in the development and implementation of a new global program on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance.
Linda holds a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Sorbonne Institute of Development Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Paris 8 University. Following her studies, she joined the United Nations Capital Development Fund’s (UNCDF) Dakar Regional Office for West and Central Africa as a Partnership Specialist. For two years, she supported UNCDF’s fundraising process at the regional level and took part in the rollout of several projects relating to the digital and financial inclusion of marginalized groups. Linda is a Certified Digital Finance Practitioner and is particularly interested in digitally-enabled solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In 2022, she was nominated by the African Union-European Union Digital for Development (D4D) Hub to be one of ten young women participating in the #GirlsinD4D initiative.