Claire Frost

Ms Claire Frost is Head of Programmes at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF). She has 20 years of experience working with local government at the local, national and international level.

Claire is based at CLGF Headquarters in London (UK) and works extensively with CLGF’s regional teams in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. She coordinates CLGF’s portfolio of projects and has extensive experience in inter-governmental relations, local economic development, climate resilience, sustainable urbanisation, localising the SDGs, social inclusion and addressing inequalities. She supports the coordination of the Commonwealth Women in Local Government Network (ComWLG) and the Commonwealth Sustainable Cities Network (CSCN). She is CLGF’s operational lead on the relationship with the European Union both in the coordination and implementation of the CLGF Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) and as the representative to the Policy Forum for Development (PFD) and PLATFORMA. She has a Masters degree in urban planning and a BA in communications.