Our People

Biography

Clare Lockhart, Director of the Market Building Initiative and co-founder and Director of the Institute for State Effectiveness, is a specialist in law and public administration trained at Oxford and Harvard. After working as an investment banker and barrister in London, she managed a program on state transition at the World Bank. She was then recruited as a UN advisor in Afghanistan during the Bonn process and advisor to the Government of Afghanistan during the Transitional Administration, designing and managing a series of national initiatives. While still in Afghanistan, she - with Dr. Ghani and a number of colleagues - began to codify this learning and advising high-level policy-makers in other transitional states.