Patrick

Linighan

Chief Sustainability Officer

Clyde & Co

Paddy Linighan is an experienced and skilled operations and finance professional, with over 35 years’ experience of operational and financial control, defining strategy and managing major business transformation programmes for large global organisations in the Legal Services sector. Since 2020, initially in his role as Chief Operating Officer, he has led the development of Clyde & Co’s Environmental Social & Governance Strategy which has seen their strategic positioning leapfrog from being an approach which was precautionary to one which is ambitious and market leading. Paddy was appointed the Firm’s first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2023. In addition to being a member of the ICAEW, he is an alumnus of Oxford Said Business School’s Scenarios Programme, an IEMA Affiliate and is recognised as an ESG Ambassador. He has recently been appointed to the Sustainability Advisory Board for the Centre for Synchronous Leadership's Agents of Change initiative.