Clair works in the Student Opportunity Team where she has oversight of the Widening Participation Strategic Assessment process and funding for WP and retention. Previously Clair was programme manager for the Aimhigher Programme between March 2009 and the programme’s closure in July 2011.

Before joining the Student Opportunity team, Clair worked in the Council’s Institutional Team covering London. As part of this job she helped bring together five lifelong learning networks across London and continued to support them in their early years.

Clair worked for the Council between 1992 and 1997 when she was Private Secretary to the Chief Executive. Before re-joining the Council in December 2003, she worked in planning roles at the University College of the Arts and the University of Southampton.