Claire Howse - Sustainability Director CC Africa (Conservation Corporation Africa)

Claire was born and raised in Cape Town as a 5th generation South African. After undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Clinical Psychology (Honours thesis on Xhosa shamanic practice), Journalism and Fine Art, she spent a short stint in commercial property and quickly fled to a career with CC Africa.

Claire later studied an MBA at UCT and London Business School, and subsequently worked as a Strategist and Business Director with international communications groups of Bates and Ogilvy.
Last year she returned to eco-tourism and CC Africa in order to establish the new Sustainability portfolio and add further strategic focus, voice and structure to a highly-developed ethos of responsibility within the company. She also sits on the board of Africa Foundation.