Claire O’Neill
Claire is a member of OEP’s Advisory Council.
Claire is considered a global expert on sustainability and decarbonisation with a particular focus on practical action and the leading role of the private sector.
She served as a UK Member of Parliament from 2010 and as Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth from 2017 she is considered to have played a key role in the acceleration of the UK’s decarbonisation strategies. She left politics in 2020 to work at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the world’s leading corporate sustainability organisation. She now co-chairs the WBCSD global Imperatives Advisory Board and has several global nonexecutive Director and Advisory roles. She is a Senior Global Advisor to McKinsey and Company.
Claire grew up in the UK, studied Geography at Brasenose College Oxford, followed by an MBA at Harvard Business School and had a transatlantic career in consultancy and finance before entering politics. She is a member of the UK Privy Council, a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the Energy Institute and is a Business Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University.
Claire is a member of OEP’s Advisory Council.
Claire is considered a global expert on sustainability and decarbonisation with a particular focus on practical action and the leading role of the private sector.
She served as a UK Member of Parliament from 2010 and as Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth from 2017 she is considered to have played a key role in the acceleration of the UK’s decarbonisation strategies. She left politics in 2020 to work at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the world’s leading corporate sustainability organisation. She now co-chairs the WBCSD global Imperatives Advisory Board and has several global nonexecutive Director and Advisory roles. She is a Senior Global Advisor to McKinsey and Company.
Claire grew up in the UK, studied Geography at Brasenose College Oxford, followed by an MBA at Harvard Business School and had a transatlantic career in consultancy and finance before entering politics. She is a member of the UK Privy Council, a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the Energy Institute and is a Business Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University.