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Careers Week: The Art of Making People Care - A Conversation with Claire Straw,

19 May 2021, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm

Claire

In a world when people are bombarded with messaging on every topic how do you engage the public in on visionary public policy issues? Strategic communications expert and UCL alumna, Claire Straw, has spent over a decade raising public awareness of some of humanity’s key global challenges from global health to inspiring optimistic approaches to saving the planet.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Abi Turner

We are delighted to welcome Claire back for the third of our Inspiring Women in IR conversations at Careers Week.  In this conversation we will explore Claire’s remarkable journey which took her from Deputy Press Secretary for US Senator Olympia J. Snowe, via an MSc in Public Policy at UCL in 2010 to diverse roles in global communications including at the Maternal Mortality Campaign, working for over 10 years leading UK communications as well as public engagement campaigns on global health for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to her current role as Head of Communications for the Earthshot Prize. She will share her experiences of building global communications campaigns and her advice for those seeking to build a career in social good communications. 

This event is part of the Department's Careers Week 2021. Find out about the week and explore more events here.