Ms. Lindén is an experienced Chairman and Board Member. Currently, in addition to the Governing Board membership at EIT, she serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Åbo Akademi University, and she is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Innofactor plc. Ms. Lindén has an extensive background in global business leadership and information technology. She worked as e.g. COO at Nokia managing global operations across 10+ business lines in a global multi-billion business group and as EVP with full P&L responsibility for sales and operations on the management team of a listed company.
Ms. Lindén has strong know-how in the management of multi-national companies as well as in taking technology changes into account in business. She succeeded in leading growth and large-scale transformation programs as well as successfully managing innovation creation utilizing local ecosystems in global networks of R&D centres. An avid supporter of education and research, Ms. Lindén has cooperated with the academic world as a business leader and now serves as Vice Chair of a multi-faculty university.
Term of office: 2024-2028