diff --git a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/social/linkedin/LinkedInIdentityProvider.java b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/social/linkedin/LinkedInIdentityProvider.java
index 65406a98e17..df0479b88e5 100755
--- a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/social/linkedin/LinkedInIdentityProvider.java
+++ b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/social/linkedin/LinkedInIdentityProvider.java
@@ -29,14 +29,11 @@ import org.keycloak.events.EventBuilder;
 import org.keycloak.models.KeycloakSession;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.MalformedURLException;
-import java.net.URL;
-import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 
 /**
  * LinkedIn social provider. See https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2
- * 
+ *
  * @author Vlastimil Elias (velias at redhat dot com)
  */
 public class LinkedInIdentityProvider extends AbstractOAuth2IdentityProvider<OAuth2IdentityProviderConfig> implements SocialIdentityProvider<OAuth2IdentityProviderConfig> {
@@ -50,11 +47,13 @@ public class LinkedInIdentityProvider extends AbstractOAuth2IdentityProvider<OAu
 	public static final String EMAIL_SCOPE = "r_emailaddress";
 	public static final String DEFAULT_SCOPE = "r_liteprofile " + EMAIL_SCOPE;
 
+	private static final String PROFILE_PROJECTION = "profileProjection";
+
 	public LinkedInIdentityProvider(KeycloakSession session, OAuth2IdentityProviderConfig config) {
 		super(session, config);
 		config.setAuthorizationUrl(AUTH_URL);
 		config.setTokenUrl(TOKEN_URL);
-		config.setUserInfoUrl(PROFILE_URL);
+		config.setUserInfoUrl(getUserInfoUrl(config.getConfig().get(PROFILE_PROJECTION)));
 		// email scope is mandatory in order to resolve the username using the email address
 		if (!config.getDefaultScope().contains(EMAIL_SCOPE)) {
 			config.setDefaultScope(config.getDefaultScope() + " " + EMAIL_SCOPE);
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ public class LinkedInIdentityProvider extends AbstractOAuth2IdentityProvider<OAu
 
 	@Override
 	protected String getProfileEndpointForValidation(EventBuilder event) {
-		return PROFILE_URL;
+		return getConfig().getUserInfoUrl();
 	}
 
 	@Override
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ public class LinkedInIdentityProvider extends AbstractOAuth2IdentityProvider<OAu
 	protected BrokeredIdentityContext doGetFederatedIdentity(String accessToken) {
 		log.debug("doGetFederatedIdentity()");
 		try {
-			BrokeredIdentityContext identity = extractIdentityFromProfile(null, doHttpGet(PROFILE_URL, accessToken));
+			BrokeredIdentityContext identity = extractIdentityFromProfile(null, doHttpGet(getConfig().getUserInfoUrl(), accessToken));
 
 			identity.setEmail(fetchEmailAddress(accessToken, identity));
 
@@ -152,4 +151,16 @@ public class LinkedInIdentityProvider extends AbstractOAuth2IdentityProvider<OAu
 
 		return null;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * append profileProjection to profile URL if exists
+	 *
+	 * @param projection parameter
+	 * @return Profile URL
+	 */
+	private String getUserInfoUrl(String projection) {
+		return projection == null || projection.isEmpty()
+			? PROFILE_URL
+			: PROFILE_URL + "?projection=" + projection;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/broker/SocialLoginTest.java b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/broker/SocialLoginTest.java
index 3a41d6f7a97..9db51feb27f 100644
--- a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/broker/SocialLoginTest.java
+++ b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/broker/SocialLoginTest.java
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ import static org.keycloak.testsuite.broker.SocialLoginTest.Provider.GOOGLE_HOST
 import static org.keycloak.testsuite.broker.SocialLoginTest.Provider.GOOGLE_NON_MATCHING_HOSTED_DOMAIN;
 import static org.keycloak.testsuite.broker.SocialLoginTest.Provider.INSTAGRAM;
 import static org.keycloak.testsuite.broker.SocialLoginTest.Provider.LINKEDIN;
+import static org.keycloak.testsuite.broker.SocialLoginTest.Provider.LINKEDIN_WITH_PROJECTION;
 import static org.keycloak.testsuite.broker.SocialLoginTest.Provider.MICROSOFT;
 import static org.keycloak.testsuite.broker.SocialLoginTest.Provider.OPENSHIFT;
 import static org.keycloak.testsuite.broker.SocialLoginTest.Provider.OPENSHIFT4;
@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ public class SocialLoginTest extends AbstractKeycloakTest {
         GITHUB_PRIVATE_EMAIL("github", "github-private-email", GitHubLoginPage.class),
         TWITTER("twitter", TwitterLoginPage.class),
         LINKEDIN("linkedin", LinkedInLoginPage.class),
+        LINKEDIN_WITH_PROJECTION("linkedin", LinkedInLoginPage.class),
         MICROSOFT("microsoft", MicrosoftLoginPage.class),
         PAYPAL("paypal", PayPalLoginPage.class),
         STACKOVERFLOW("stackoverflow", StackOverflowLoginPage.class),
@@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ public class SocialLoginTest extends AbstractKeycloakTest {
         assumeTrue(System.getProperties().containsKey(SOCIAL_CONFIG));
         config.load(new FileInputStream(System.getProperty(SOCIAL_CONFIG)));
     }
-    
+
     @Before
     public void beforeSocialLoginTest() {
         accountPage.setAuthRealm(REALM);
@@ -390,6 +392,16 @@ public class SocialLoginTest extends AbstractKeycloakTest {
         assertAccount();
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void linkedinLoginWithProjection() {
+        setTestProvider(LINKEDIN_WITH_PROJECTION);
+        addAttributeMapper("picture",
+            "profilePicture.displayImage~.elements[0].identifiers[0].identifier");
+        performLogin();
+        assertAccount();
+        assertAttribute("picture", getConfig("profile.picture"));
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void microsoftLogin() {
         setTestProvider(MICROSOFT);
@@ -432,8 +444,9 @@ public class SocialLoginTest extends AbstractKeycloakTest {
         if (provider == GOOGLE_NON_MATCHING_HOSTED_DOMAIN) {
             idp.getConfig().put("hostedDomain", "non-matching-hosted-domain");
         }
-
-
+        if (provider == LINKEDIN_WITH_PROJECTION) {
+            idp.getConfig().put("profileProjection", "(id,firstName,lastName,profilePicture(displayImage~:playableStreams))");
+        }
         if (provider == STACKOVERFLOW) {
             idp.getConfig().put("key", getConfig(provider, "clientKey"));
         }
diff --git a/themes/src/main/resources/theme/base/admin/messages/admin-messages_en.properties b/themes/src/main/resources/theme/base/admin/messages/admin-messages_en.properties
index 379cbd5c0fc..94598ae5d04 100644
--- a/themes/src/main/resources/theme/base/admin/messages/admin-messages_en.properties
+++ b/themes/src/main/resources/theme/base/admin/messages/admin-messages_en.properties
@@ -694,6 +694,8 @@ offlineAccess=Request refresh token
 identity-provider.google-offlineAccess.tooltip=Set 'access_type' query parameter to 'offline' when redirecting to google authorization endpoint, to get a refresh token back. Useful if planning to use Token Exchange to retrieve Google token to access Google APIs when the user is not at the browser.
 hostedDomain=Hosted Domain
 identity-provider.google-hostedDomain.tooltip=Set 'hd' query parameter when logging in with Google. Google will list accounts only for this domain. Keycloak validates that the returned identity token has a claim for this domain. When '*' is entered, any hosted account can be used.
+profileProjection=Profile Projection
+identity-provider.linkedin-profileProjection.tooltip=Projection parameter for profile request. Leave empty for default projection.
 identity-provider.facebook-fetchedFields.label=Additional user's profile fields
 identity-provider.facebook-fetchedFields.tooltip=Provide additional fields which would be fetched using the profile request. This will be appended to the default set of 'id,name,email,first_name,last_name'.
 sandbox=Target Sandbox
diff --git a/themes/src/main/resources/theme/base/admin/resources/partials/realm-identity-provider-linkedin-ext.html b/themes/src/main/resources/theme/base/admin/resources/partials/realm-identity-provider-linkedin-ext.html
index e69de29bb2d..4bd2ea716e8 100755
--- a/themes/src/main/resources/theme/base/admin/resources/partials/realm-identity-provider-linkedin-ext.html
+++ b/themes/src/main/resources/theme/base/admin/resources/partials/realm-identity-provider-linkedin-ext.html
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<div class="form-group">
+    <label class="col-md-2 control-label" for="profileProjection">{{:: 'profileProjection' | translate}}</label>
+    <div class="col-md-6">
+        <input
+                ng-model="identityProvider.config.profileProjection"
+                placeholder="e.g.: (id,firstName,lastName,profilePicture(displayImage~:playableStreams))"
+                id="profileProjection"
+                class="form-control" />
+    </div>
+    <kc-tooltip>{{:: 'identity-provider.linkedin-profileProjection.tooltip' | translate}}</kc-tooltip>
+</div>