Full Name
Claire Wren
Job Title
Future Transport Systems & Environment Director
Company
UK Department for Transport
Speaker Bio
Claire Wren joined DfT in summer 2021 and joined with Hannah Newell in a director job-share. Together they led on Transport Day at COP, and in December 2021 established the new Future Transport Systems and Environment directorate with a mission to create a sustainable transport future.

Previously she spent 13 years in HM Treasury working in a range of roles, but with an emphasis on supply side policies and also new organisations. Including leading the cross-Whitehall project for supporting for strategic companies in response to COVID and setting up the new UK Infrastructure Bank. She also spent three years at UKGI on secondment sitting on the board of HM Land Registry and setting up the new Geospatial Commission.

Outside work she has two sons and she is a trustee of a local multi-academy trust. She lives in SE London.
Claire Wren