Serena Kern-Libera

Prior to founding LinkGevity, Serena worked as a Corporate M&A lawyer at magic circle firm Slaughter and May. She held senior leadership positions at the Bank of England as Head of Global Trade Strategy and HMT Treasury, where she also acted as Private Secretary (Chief of Staff) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

She has also worked at reputed law firms in Switzerland and India and interned at the High Court of Justice, London. She holds a Law Degree from the London School of Economics and a Master’s in Public International Law.

Serena is the co-founder of a London-based initiative called Discover2Dream, where she leads a team of young female professionals to raise career aspirations of school students through career talks and events. In 2020, Serena was elected to the Board of the Small Countries Financial Management Centre, a charitable organisation that runs training programmes for officials from the 30 smallest economies in the world.

In her spare time, Serena (stage name: Segiri) is an accomplished musician. She runs her own record label, D2D Records, a social enterprise aimed at supporting emerging young female artists and her own music is regularly broadcast on services such as BBC Radio, Apple Music and Spotify.