Claire is Head of Digital Inclusion in the Mobile for Development (M4D) team at the GSMA. She leads the Connected Women and Connected Society programmes which are focused on accelerating digital inclusion for the underserved in low- and middle-income countries. Connected Women has a specific focus on accelerating digital and financial inclusion for women. She is also the lead at the GSMA on the Women in the Digital Economy Fund (WiDEF) being managed by the GSMA, CARE and GDIP that is focused on identifying, funding and accelerating evidence-based solutions to close the gender digital divide.

Claire has been working for over 25 years with public, private and international development organisations on social policy and service delivery with a focus on information and communications technology (ICT) policy and practice. She has developed, managed and implemented programmes in Africa, Asia and the UK. Claire holds an MSc in Social Research Methods (2012) and an MSc in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries (1997) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).