Amy Linden
Board Member

Amy Linden is presently an independent consultant working with clients such as the Environmental Defense Fund. She was born and raised in California, moved east for graduate school, after which she has lived and worked in New York City ever since.

She has a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s in Public & Private Management from Yale School of Management.

Amy has worked 27 years in transportation and infrastructure management, 19 in the public sector, including extensive strategic planning, capital investment, operations and organizational change experience. Amy has worked with all levels of government – local, state, federal, and also, international - and also been involved with multi-agency collaboration to achieve outcomes that could not be achieved working otherwise. Some highlights include:
- At the nation’s largest transit agency, the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Amy oversaw the establishment of the first three financing credits to be used by the MTA, making it the largest municipal bond issuer in the country.
- At the New York City Board of Education (BOE), as head of school facilities, Amy successfully led the drive to establish through legislation a new school construction agency as a best practices model of public works, reducing school construction from ten to two years, and enlarging the school construction program from an average annual expenditure of $50 million to $1 billion.
- When the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) was developing the introduction of the new Acela brand as part of the introduction of high speed rail in the U.S., Amy oversaw the change process that assessed and revised, as needed every Northeast Corridor operating process and policy to a standard of “world class service”, the promise behind the new Acela brand.
- At Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), a global engineering consulting firm providing services in transportation, power, and community development, Amy was a director of the PB Foundation where she conceived and ushered through approval the program strategy for the Foundation and the company that led to PB developing a partnership with Bridges to Prosperity.
- Amy was a Founding Director of Community Capital Bank, a community development bank in Brooklyn that operated from 1988 – 1998 before being acquired. Amy has been recognized through several awards for her public service and innovative financing deals.

She has volunteered much time as a mentor to emerging professionals, and is an active volunteer at her daughter’s elementary school. Amy has traveled, trekked and hiked in many parts of the US and other countries. She is the proud mother of a teen-ager, and living in Brooklyn.

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