Claire Willman Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

- Lead the CEO's Front Office team to ensure an optimally deployed CEO. Work closely with the CEO in setting strategy and ensuring his activities align with CEPI's short-, medium-, and long-term priorities.- Provide strategic management, analysis, and problem-solving to support the CEO and Chief of Staff in achieving CEPI's objectives.- Partner with teams across the organisation to operationalise new initiatives and projects. Coordinate ad hoc projects and working groups on emerging priorities and support change management in a rapidly expanding organisation.- Develop and implement policies, processes and tools to support more effective ways of working.- Manage CEO's internal communications to ensure understanding of his strategic vision, 'connect the dots' between different teams and work areas.- Maintain and build networks to support high-quality working relationships with a range of external stakeholders, act as relationship lead on key relationships with partners in government, international organisations, the private sector, and civil society.- Manage agendas, commission papers and quality assure submissions for Leadership Team, Board and other governance meetings - review materials, take minutes and follow up on decision making. Manage the recruitment, onboarding and communications with members of governance bodies.- Strategic management of CEPI's engagement in, and convening of, external events including the WEF Annual Meetings, World Health Assembly, UNGA.- Support the CEO and Board Chair on overseas missions, at international conferences and senior meetings including briefing prep.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Outreach and Partnerships: focal point for relationship-management in support of the Bank's work on Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation; Governance; Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment; and Poverty and Equity. • Strategy: Design, implement, and monitor communication campaigns including positioning, stakeholder identification, opportunities and risk management. • Communications: create/ edit content for different audiences, including news releases, speeches, feature stories, forewords, blogs, and digital comms, as well as briefings for senior management.• Events management: including public events at the World Bank Spring and Annual Meetings.

London, United Kingdom

• Strategy: public affairs campaigns to build positive perception of the WB in the UK and Ireland.• Relationship management: across-government, parliament, civil society and key influencers. • Political/economic intelligence: for the President, senior management, and wider staff, including briefing materials for international summits, bilateral meetings, public and private engagements. • Representation: promote and project the Bank at external talks, events, consultations.• Coordination of high-level visits: by the President and global leadership.• Manage the World Bank London office on a day-to-day basis and act as the UK/ Ireland entry point to the full breadth of the WB's global operations, staff and research.

Washington, United States

Short-term assignment with the communications team managing the launch of the first World Bank Group Strategy for Fragility, Conflict and Violence.

London, United Kingdom

As Campaign Director of a citizen activism NGO, I was responsible for fundraising; directing events and communications; managing the flow of analytical and advocacy content; building partnerships with like-minded organisations across Europe; recruiting and managing consultants/ staff; financial reporting and oversight, including charitable status legal obligations.

• Supported the Director in setting institutional priorities, implementing strategy, leading fundraising activity, and managing global research and operations functions.• Relationship management: with the offices of heads of state, ministers, royalty, military chiefs, CEOs, civil society leaders and the media.• Communications: coordinated directorial comms including speeches, press releases, board reports, correspondence, and internal comms.• Fundraising: with private donors, HNWIs, and governments, including drafting of proposals and MoUs. Built lucrative partnerships in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia.• Project management: of new events and initiatives, also contributing to internal change management. • Events management: keynote addresses, exclusive dinners, press launches, and round tables. Also part of the management team for the Institute's major intergovernmental summits in Singapore and Bahrain - the Shangri-La and Manama Dialogues – and large conferences in Europe.• Oversaw the Director's extensive international travel and complex meeting schedule.

Chelsea, London

Created and implemented marketing strategy; identified leads, managed client relationships and generated new sales; managed luxury events attended by celebrity clientele; created staff-incentivising strategy to boost revenue; produced weekly financial reports for directors; and acted as liaison between directors and staff. Freelanced at other high-end venues and events, including for New York members' club Bungalow 8 at the 2012 Venice Film Festival.

Oxford, United Kingdom

London

Mayfair

Managed the front of house team at a luxury nightlife venue, hosted high-value customers, managed client relationships and generated sales.

Social And Political Sciences, Politics, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Vice-President of Downing College JCR; President of Downing College Southern African Fund for Education.

International Studies And Diplomacy, Ma, International Relations And Affairs