Clare Church is a policy analyst for IISD’s Resilience Program. Her work focuses on environment, conflict and peacebuilding, analyzing the connections between environmental change, natural resources, and security.

Clare Clifton is the inclusive market development project manager at Christian Aid, where she helps to embed a market systems approach across 10 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Clare has spent the past decade exploring the role of the private sector in development, including a stint in Rwanda working for a small enterprise, Cards from Africa. She holds an M.A. in international development with a focus on enterprise development and NGO/private sector engagement.

Clare Coffey is program policy manager for ActionAid U.K., responsible for overseeing research and policy analysis on a range of issues, including aid, the private sector and land. Before joining ActionAid U.K., she was NGO advisor for Germany development firm GIZ and volunteering giant VSO.

Clare Shakya is the global managing director for the Tackling Climate Change initiative at The Nature Conservancy. She led the integration of climate change thinking into the United Kingdom's development interventions in Asia and Africa and then created initiatives to improve access and delivery of climate finance as the International Institute for Environment and Development’s climate director.

Clare Short was DFID's founding secretary of state, running the department from 1997-2003 after it was spun out from the FCO.

Clarissa Brocklehurst is a water supply, sanitation, and hygiene specialist, who has worked for almost 40 years in the international development sector. She is an adjunct professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously served as the chief of WASH at UNICEF and helped establish the global Sanitation and Water for All partnership. Clarissa has also played a role in the development of strategy and advocacy for the global WASH sector and serves on several technical advisory groups for sector initiatives.

Claude Turmes is a member of the European Parliament from Luxembourg, representing Déi Gréng - Les Verts (Group of the European Greens/EFA). He has been an MEP since 1999, and sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Claudia Ahumada is a global human rights lawyer and gender expert from Chile and Canada, specializing in participatory change. Working at the intersection of rights and evidence, she has built capacity and developed resources to meaningfully mainstream gender and diversity across change efforts. She is the lead of partnerships at GENDRO. A former UNAIDS staff member, she denounced the institutional actions taken to discredit women who spoke out against harassment.

Claudia Apel is a project manager and facilitator who understands the Global Leadership Academy's programs as a great way of exploring what it can look and feel like to take on new ways of thinking and acting, in order to bring forward more impactful formats for international cooperation and ultimately a world that works for all. Apel brings to her work the expertise from both of her diplomas in neuroscience and organizational psychology. She has published on the scientific impact evaluation of human capacity development programs, is a trainer for nonviolent communication and currently pursuing training in deep democracy.