Nadja Skaljic is a legal executive with over 15 years of experience, working across the green, finance and technology industries.
A practicing lawyer, Skaljic is the Chief Legal and Strategy Officer of a privately held, lab-based Swiss company. She leverages policy, capital and technology to develop innovative product typologies and platforms. These are designed and invested in to foster a new socio-economic system’s logic that promotes inclusive, sustainable prosperity within planetary boundaries.
Throughout her career, Skaljic has held senior roles in government, international organisations and the corporate sector. She previously served as General Counsel for a multinational trading company with billions in annual turnover. She was a senior policy adviser for the British delegation to the European Union throughout Brexit, where she helped shape the EU’s green and digital agendas. She was also a Senior Fellow for Europe at the Carnegie Council in New York and worked at the Prosecutor’s Office for the United Nations International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.
Skaljic serves on several corporate and non-profit boards in Europe and the US. Her corporate directorships include a clinical-stage biotech company based in Sweden and a longevity company founded by former Google AI engineers based in Silicon Valley. Her non-profit engagements are extensive and, most recently, include board membership in the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, an initiative of Oxford’s Faculty of Law and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She is an early supporter and adviser to The Fifth Element programme of The Club of Rome.
Skaljic is a Fellow at the European Law Institute (ELI), representing Switzerland’s view on digitalisation and justice. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), based in London. She is a Member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the European Society of International Law (ESIL).
Skaljic’s forthcoming publication is “Quo vadis Europa?”, the prologue chapter for a new book on the political and economic impact of the EU Climate Pact.
She has authored pieces for the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg, the Huffington Post, the International Chamber of Commerce and others. Skaljic contributed to two books, with Hurst Hannum, “Rescuing Human Rights: A Radically Moderate Approach”, published by Cambridge University Press (2019) and with Michael Ignatieff, “The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World”, published by Harvard University Press (2017).
Skaljic studied law at the University of Oxford and Harvard Law School and international relations and political systems at The Fletcher School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
