Line Gordon is the director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Line is an internationally recognized scientist in the sustainability of water, food, and the biosphere. She conducts innovative research that combines work with small-scale farmers in Africa, global models of land-use and rainfall interactions, and culinary innovators.

She has previously served as deputy director, deputy science director and research theme leader at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

As a researcher, Gordon is particularly interested in how intentional and unintentional actions in one place can influence systemic change elsewhere. In research she integrates insights from resilience thinking, land-use change, food systems, hydrology, and social-ecological systems.