Claire Ighodaro CBE has held a number of Chair and Board roles in UK and international organisations and was the first female President of CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants). She is currently Chair of the KPMG UK Audit Board. She is also a volunteer mentor on both executive and young people’s development programmes and is a Council of Reference Member of Westminster Abbey Institute.

She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University and was appointed a CBE in 2008, for services to business. She lives in Haslemere, is married to Anthony and has three adult daughters and six grandsons.