Clare is an experienced executive leader. She has a background in legal and financial services, having practised as a commercial lawyer with Clifford Chance in London involved in international debt capital markets, and co-founded Murray & Co (an investment banking firm here in NZ). Her governance roles have included chair of the Christchurch Arts Festival and board member of the NZSO. Currently, she is a non-executive director of Whai Rawa Fund Ltd (a whānau-driven managed licensed investment scheme), Murray & Co and she is also the founding chair of Cantabrainers Therapeutic Choir Charitable Trust. A lifelong learner, she is passionate about her executive role at the University of Canterbury as Director of Work-Integrated Learning. She has catalysed the University’s refreshed commitment to WIL, and created an Ako ā-mahi Hub which supports WIL in faculties, but also homes the University’s PACE Internship Programme (a suite of multi-disciplinary internship and project-based courses). In her previous role at the University, she was responsible for running PACE where she acquired a deep commitment to WIL as an educational approach, which she observed literally transformed lives. Clare now provides strategic leadership across the University to advance WIL opportunities in all their many forms for students. She has a Master of Arts from Oxford University, Law Society Finals from De Montfort University and is a Chartered Member of the NZ Institute of Directors. As part of her continuing professional development, Clare has completed WACE modules in WIL, presented in the context of WILNZ’s webinar series and its 2021 conference, created a new WIL course (Workplace Skills and Corporate Social Responsibility), and has recently completed a postgraduate paper in research methodology and epistemology.