Aleksandra Palinska

About Aleksandra Palinska

Aleksandra Palinska is the Executive Director of Eurosif, the European Sustainable Investment Forum, a Brussels-based association advocating for a more sustainable financial system.

She is a seasoned professional with fifteen years of experience in EU public policy and regulation. Her expertise covers sustainable finance, financial market regulation, company law and corporate governance. Since 2019 her focus has been on driving sustainability through financial markets.

Prior to joining Eurosif, she worked for various Brussels-based organisations including Finance Watch – a Brussels-based NGO and expertise centre with a mission to make finance serve society – EFAMA, EuropeanIssuers and BetterFinance, which represent the interests of asset managers, publicly-listed companies and individual investors, respectively.

From March 2022 to December 2023, Aleksandra served as a member of EFRAG’s Sustainability Reporting Board (SRB), helping shape the European Sustainability Reporting Standards. Between January 2021 and September 2022, Aleksandra acted as a sherpa on the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance, where she contributed to the development of the recommendations for a social taxonomy, minimum social and governance safeguards that taxonomy-aligned investments must meet, and taxonomy-related disclosures.

Aleksandra holds a master’s degree in management from an economics university and a post-graduate diploma in European studies.