Clare is a qualified actuary and Principal at Punter Southall where she provides actuarial and investment consultancy advice to trustees and corporate sponsors of occupational pension schemes. She advises on schemes ranging in size from £3m to £4bn across a range of different sectors and industries, including livery companies. During her career, as well as acting as Scheme Actuary, she has advised on benefit design, scheme buyouts and wind-ups, scheme mergers and transactions. She co-authored a paper delivered to the Association of Pensions Lawyers on the subject of quantifying pensions loss on dismissal. Clare sits on the firm’s professional affairs committee, public sector committee and service group and chairs the defined contribution committee.
Clare has spent most of her life in the City. She spent 11 years as a pupil at the City of London School for Girls before obtaining a First Class Honours degree in Engineering at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Clare became a Freeman of the City in 1995 and joined the Fletchers Company as a Freeman in 1999, progressing to Liveryman in 2000 and thereafter joining the Court in July 2009. She has chaired the Finance Committee for the last two years, recently handing over to her successor in the run up to becoming Master.
Clare is also a Liveryman of the Actuaries Company, a past Chairman of Coleman Street Ward Club and a past Chairman of the Society of Young Freemen.
Clare was first elected to the Court of Common Council, representing the Ward of Farringdon Within, in April 2008. Over the last 8 years she has served on a number of Corporation Committees including Planning and Transportation and Children and Community Services. Currently, Clare serves on the Finance, Investment and Hampstead Heath, Queens Park and Highgate Wood Committees. She is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the City of London School for Girls. She was recently re-elected to Common Council in the all-out March 2017 elections and has been appointed Ward Deputy for North Side.
Outside of her professional work and Common Council activities Clare enjoys tennis, music, history and fast cars! She is married to Nigel who is a Liveryman of the Fletchers and Tax Advisers Companies and they have two young sons, Sam and Alex.
Clare is a qualified actuary and Principal at Punter Southall where she provides actuarial and investment consultancy advice to trustees and corporate sponsors of occupational pension schemes. She advises on schemes ranging in size from £3m to £4bn across a range of different sectors and industries, including livery companies. During her career, as well as acting as Scheme Actuary, she has advised on benefit design, scheme buyouts and wind-ups, scheme mergers and transactions. She co-authored a paper delivered to the Association of Pensions Lawyers on the subject of quantifying pensions loss on dismissal. Clare sits on the firm’s professional affairs committee, public sector committee and service group and chairs the defined contribution committee.
Clare has spent most of her life in the City. She spent 11 years as a pupil at the City of London School for Girls before obtaining a First Class Honours degree in Engineering at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Clare became a Freeman of the City in 1995 and joined the Fletchers Company as a Freeman in 1999, progressing to Liveryman in 2000 and thereafter joining the Court in July 2009. She has chaired the Finance Committee for the last two years, recently handing over to her successor in the run up to becoming Master.
Clare is also a Liveryman of the Actuaries Company, a past Chairman of Coleman Street Ward Club and a past Chairman of the Society of Young Freemen.
Clare was first elected to the Court of Common Council, representing the Ward of Farringdon Within, in April 2008. Over the last 8 years she has served on a number of Corporation Committees including Planning and Transportation and Children and Community Services. Currently, Clare serves on the Finance, Investment and Hampstead Heath, Queens Park and Highgate Wood Committees. She is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the City of London School for Girls. She was recently re-elected to Common Council in the all-out March 2017 elections and has been appointed Ward Deputy for North Side.
Outside of her professional work and Common Council activities Clare enjoys tennis, music, history and fast cars! She is married to Nigel who is a Liveryman of the Fletchers and Tax Advisers Companies and they have two young sons, Sam and Alex.
"I have now had plenty of time to reflect on my year as Master; its highs and its lows. I am sure I speak for every Past Master in acknowledging the enormous honour and responsibility I felt transferred to me as the Master’s badge and chain was placed around my neck at the Installation Ceremony and my aspiration to do my very best for the Fletchers’ Company in the year ahead. The year went by in a flash, but there are a number of enduring memories I will always treasure:
The excitement of my two young sons, dressed for the first time in black tie, as they attended the Installation Dinner
Presenting Awards to Archers
Presenting the awards to the winning archers in the various competitions at the Royal Tox and Lilleshall, but most of all having the chance to speak with the competitors and understand how much the opportunity to compete meant to them and their aspirations for the future
The Master’s Holiday
The Master’s Holiday in Guernsey and in particular standing in the magical ruins of Castle Cornet for the noonday cannon, the wonderful evening at Auberge with its stunning clifftop views off Jerbourg Point and the saturated and bedraggled return of the group who braved the RIB excursion that choppy Sunday morning, whilst the rest of us visited Victor Hugo’s house or made candles.
And all that Jazz
The jazz evening at our Hall; a less formal but convivial occasion and my attempt at trying something different that departed from the traditional black-tie dinner.
The Ladies Banquet
The Ladies Banquet at Grocers’ Hall, always a special evening when the Mayoral Civic Party is in attendance, but the serendipity of the date with a historic Fletchers’ Dinner at the same venue and my own and the Lord Mayor’s link with the Grocers’ making that evening particularly resonant.
Sharing my year
And finally, the overwhelming support and camraderie of fellow Fletchers, new and old friends in the wider Livery movement and my family. Being able to share my year with so many people was a key factor in making the year so special."