Elizabeth Linder

Support Team

Throughout her entire career to date, Elizabeth Linder has never held a position with an existing job description. Keeping the record up, Elizabeth’s team title is ‘The Incense Route Expedition Liaison Manager’. 

Elizabeth was invaluable as a door-opener to her middle-eastern connections in the early stages of securing in-country contacts for endorsements and funding potential.

Elizabeth started her career at Google/YouTube, specialising in modern diplomacy and policy development. Elizabeth served as Facebook’s first “secretary of state” and originated the Chief Diplomatic Officer role at the boardroom level. She has worked with national-level government leaders in 57 countries.

In 2011, Elizabeth founded and built the Politics & Government division of Facebook from the Europe, Middle East and Africa region based in London.  Elizabeth is the founder and CEO of Brooch Associates, a strategic advisory firm, where her clients range across a variety of industries and countries. Hence. her formidable network of global contacts and invaluable role in helping establish a network of in-country contacts.