Clare Kerr
Clare Kerr has dedicated much of the past decade to researching environmental issues, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.
She was Secretariat to the Climate Change group on the Quality of Life Commission 2006-2007, for which she co-authored the paper 'Don't Give up on 2°C' in December 2006, and the chapter 'The Imperative of Climate Change' for the Commission's final report, Blueprint for a Green Economy, published in September 2007.
Clare now works as a Senior Researcher in the House of Commons on policy areas related to the environment, sustainability, health, and human rights. Before this, she worked as a UN Volunteer 2005-2006, successfully implementing development projects in Ghana, Uganda and Mali on behalf of voluntary organisation Nabuur.
She studied 'Human Health and Global Environmental Change' with Harvard Medical School in 2005, and 'Trade, Development and the Environment' and 'Global Civil Society' at the London School of Economics in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
Clare was appointed as Patron of the Breakspear Hospital Trust in 2007, having served as a Trustee for the environmental medicine hospital for four years from 2003. She is Founder Trustee of the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Trust, which is due to be launched in 2008 with a view to conserving and upholding the knowledge and traditions of indigenous peoples around the world.
In 2006, Clare joined forces with fellow ambassador Lewis Gordon Pugh, organising a successful campaign for WWF-UK to raise awareness of climate change in conjunction with Lewis's record breaking swim down the full length of the River Thames.