Clare is a co-founder and co-director of the Mission Models Money (MMM) programme. She has an extensive career in arts management which started with the British Council in 1981. From 1991 to 2001 she specialised in partnership development and fundraising with a portfolio of diverse clients the largest of which was Laban where she led the first five years of the development of their award winning Hertzog & de Meuron building.

In 2001, she joined Arts & Business first taking the role of Director of Development and then becoming their first Director of Policy & Communications where. There, in partnership with Roanne Dods, then of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, she initiated the MMM programme, leaving in 2005 to focus full time on its independent development.

She has served as a Trustee on the Boards of a number of arts organisations and higher education institutions over the last 15 years but is now focusing her volunteering in broader community settings primarily around the role of cultural and creative practice in building awareness of and responses to resource scarcity and climate change.

She was born and brought up in East Africa and currently lives and works part of the time in Scotland and part of the time in London.  clare.cooper@deft.org.uk