Clare Shine

Biography

Clare Shine was appointed Vice President and Chief Program Officer of Salzburg Global Seminar in 2012. Salzburg Global, an independent international organization founded in 1947, challenges current and future leaders to shape a better world. Our strategic programs aim to bridge divides, expand collaboration and transform systems.

Salzburg Global now operates as a social enterprise, which combines non-profit mission-aligned programs and networks with an award-winning hotel. Clare has overall responsibility for the design, implementation, evaluation and impact strategy for multi-year programs, partnerships and policy initiatives; cross-sector innovation hubs in selected cities around the world; next-generation leadership development; communications and thought leadership; and the Salzburg Global Fellowship. Over 36,000 Fellows from 170 countries have come together through our work since 1947.

Clare’s unusual career spans four continents and many sectors, connecting business, law, policy, media and the arts. From 1990-2011, she was an independent sustainable development consultant for intergovernmental organizations, national and local governments, the private sector and NGOs. She led influential projects on biodiversity and climate change, oceans and coastal development, international trade, transboundary cooperation, and conflict prevention and reconciliation. Clare is a UK-qualified barrister, an Associate of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and a professional mediator and facilitator.

Clare is also an experienced journalist who was the Financial Times' theater critic in France from 2001-2011. She began her career in industry, working in the media and publishing sector with responsibility for marketing and new ventures. She holds an M.A. in English literature from Oxford University, UK and post-graduate degrees from London University and the Sorbonne University, Paris, France.