Claire Naylor-Trein

Biography

Claire is a Senior Associate at Greenwood Place, where her grant making work is informed by her decade of experience co-leading international charities at both grassroots and regional levels. Before joining Greenwood Place, Claire launched and grew gender equity initiatives across South and Southeast Asia. Most recently, she served as Executive Director of Wedu, an organisation focused on closing gender leadership gap in Asia through mentoring, leadership programmes, and education financing. Prior to Wedu, she piloted adolescent-girl-led models of development at Women LEAD Nepal while growing the organisation from the ground up.

Greenwood Place is a London-based philanthropy accelerator that enables philanthropists and foundations to do their work more effectively by providing long-term, high-quality support to those who want their philanthropy to punch above its weight.