Claire Fargeot is a strategic consultant, board director, mentor, trainer, author, and part-time lecturer. She brings a wealth of governance, sustainability, board practice, as well as learning and development experience for directors in the listed, private, charitable, state owned and mutual enterprise sectors.


As a specialist in governance, strategy, sustainability and reporting, Claire regularly works with all types of organisations to find solutions to challenges and enhance value. With more than 25 years of practical capital markets experience she has gained extensive skills in developing strategic programmes for companies with governance, sustainability, and business performance issues. She regularly mentors board members, conducts effectiveness reviews as well as working as an agent for change to deliver transformational solutions to governance and sustainability driven challenges.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Claire successfully ran her own her consultancy, was a EU Policy Advocate at the CFA Institute, was lead Partner for a successful Investor Relations consultancy for WPP as well as being a strategic consultant at PwC in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Claire began her career as a top rated financial research analyst and is now a part-time doctoral researcher, preparing her thesis in Directors’ Behaviours and Actions as well as being a published author in governance related topics.