Clare Lockhart is Director and co-founder of the

Institute for State Effectiveness The Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE) is a non-governmental organization based in Washington, D.C. that seeks to address the challenge of accountability and governance through a system-building approach across governments, markets and people ...

(ISE). ISE was founded in 2005 to find and promote approaches to building good governance. Lockhart is also Director of the Market Building Initiative at the

Aspen Institute The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., but also has a campus in Aspen, Colorado, its original home. Its stated miss ...

. She served as a Senior Fellow at the

Jackson Institute for Global Affairs The Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs (formerly the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs) is a professional school of Yale University that specializes in global affairs. Established in 2022, it is Yale's newest professional school. Based ...

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

from 2014 to 2022. Since 2023, Lockhart has served as a Global Advisor for the ACE Global Leaders of Excellence Network. She served in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

as an adviser to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...

during the Bonn Process in 2001. Lockhart is an Advisory Board Member of Spirit of America, a

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that supports the safety and success of Americans serving abroad and the local people and partners they seek to help. Lockhart is married to Joel Rayburn. They live in London and Washington, DC.

Education

She is a member of the

Bar of England and Wales Barristers in England and Wales are one of the two main categories of lawyer in England and Wales, the other being solicitors. Barristers have traditionally had the role of handling cases for representation in court, both defence and prosecutio ...

, and was educated at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

and

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

Publications

She is the coauthor with

Ashraf Ghani Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan former politician and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was 2021 Taliban offensive, overthrown by the Ta ...

of ''Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World'' (2008). Along with Ashraf Ghani, she was listed on the 'Top 100 global thinkers list' for 2010 by

Foreign Policy Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a State (polity), state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities. It encompasses a wide range of objectives, includ ...

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