Linda Zahri

Linda Zahri is Vice President in Infrastructure in the London Branch of KfW IPEX-Bank.

She has built extensive and diverse experience over the last 13 years in Project Financing and Corporate Financing. Within her role at KfW IPEX, she has successfully closed core infrastructure projects in sectors spanning across ports, education (schools and universities) and social infrastructure, whilst covering various jurisdictions such as the UK, Europe, the USA, Australia and Africa. In more recent years, she has particularly focussed in the growing Digital Infrastructure sector expanding her experience in debt financing for Data Centres, FTTH networks and select telecommunication towers projects worldwide.

Prior to this, she had developed deep expertise in commodities financing and trade finance, primarily in developing markets. She held positions in both high profile international trading companies and lending institutions, arranging debt for Soft Commodities (sugar, cotton, grains, coffee) projects and also for Metals & Mining and Oil & Gas assets.

Linda studied international finance and graduated from the University L. Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. She is a native French speaker, and is fluent in Portuguese. Outside of her professional life, she holds qualifications in Nutritional Therapy.