Lena Kilee is the Managing Partner of Egon Zehnder’s Sub-Saharan Africa practice. She brings deep expertise in board and CEO succession, as well as broader leadership advisory services. She is a core member of Egon Zehnder’s global Health and Technology practices. As a trusted advisor to clients around the world, she also specializes in leadership assessment and development. Lena values diversity and lateral thinking when leading searches for CEOs, executive board members, and board chairs. Major public companies, start-ups and scale-ups, family-owned businesses, not-for-profits, and public sector organizations rely on her insight and advice.
Lena has worked in Europe, China, the U.S., Afghanistan, and East Africa. Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, she was Director, Advisory Services and Business Development, at Horizon Client Access in New York, where she advised multinational clients on political risk management. In this role she played a part in numerous strategic and growth processes at globally active companies. Previously, Lena worked for the German federal government, first at the Federal Ministry of Interior in Berlin and then as Deputy Chief of Mentors for the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan. Lena started her career as Personal Assistant to the Secretary General at the Association of German Foundations, in Berlin.
Lena earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University and is a fully qualified lawyer.
