Claire is the Managing Director of Grant Thornton’s Governance and Sustainability Board Advisory Practice and leads the research and insight activities for the Grant Thornton Corporate Governance Institute. She works strategically as an executive mentor and board advisor across a variety of sectors and organisations, supporting them to improve their governance, sustainability and reporting practices to enhance reputational value.

With more than 25 years of capital markets, finance and management consulting experience, Claire has extensive skills in delivering growth, sustainability and governance renewal programmes. She regularly provides board learning and development programmes to upskill in governance, sustainability and reporting. Claire is a regularly published author on corporate governance and effective directorship and sits on the editorial board of the Governance Journal.

Claire has NED experience in the listed, private family run, entrepreneurial, youth, health, charity, local authority as well as the wider public sector and she currently serves as the Chair of TechPixies.com, a tech-based social impact enterprise. Claire is an associate lecturer and PGR board member for Nottingham Business School.