Elizabeth Linder has been at the forefront of modern corporate diplomacy since the dawn of the social media revolution , representing U.S. and international firms at the head-of-state, ministerial, and national political levels across 56 countries.

The originator of the Chief Diplomatic Officer role, she founded Brooch Associates to bring intellectual firepower and diplomatic fluency to organisations navigating international expansion. Headquartered in London with offices in Coral Gables and the Napa Valley, Brooch operates across two complementary practices: a corporate diplomacy advisory and an experiential division, Experiences by Brooch.

Elizabeth began her career at Google and YouTube before joining Facebook, where she served as the company's first "Secretary of State," founding and building the Politics & Government division across the Europe, Middle East & Africa region. She was a first-person witness to the full arc of what happens when disruption mythology becomes corporate doctrine. The CDO concept is the alternative she built in response.

She later led the nation branding division at Beautiful Destinations, working with Ministers of Tourism from Panama to Morocco, Jamaica to the European Union. She is a Princeton graduate and holds a Distinction in the Wine & Spirits Education Trust Exam, having led wine education salons at Berry Brothers & Rudd, London's oldest wine merchant.