Claire is the Starlight Children’s Foundation National Manager, Research and Evaluation and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Discipline of Paediatrics, UNSW Medicine. She has over twenty-five years of experience in non-profits focused on young people, with a particular focus in health and community services. Claire her own consulting business, and was previously the General Manager of Operations and Services for the national charity CanTeen (the Australian Organisation for Young People Living with Cancer). Claire has held a number of community and voluntary roles including as a member of the Cancer Australia National Reference Group, the Australian Government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Mentoring, a Board Member of the Reg Waite Award for Young Australian Achievers, a Director of Lifebridge Australia and is the current Chair of the YWCA's national nominations committee. Her post-graduate qualifications include a PhD in Education, a Masters of Arts in Communications and Graduate Diplomas in Educational Studies and Adolescent Health and Welfare (Oncology).