Claire Priestley

CDIO, Director, Empath and Ambassador.

Claire Priestley is Chief Digital and Information Officer at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, founder of not-for-profit CIO+1, and co-founder and Director of The Secret Boxing Gym in London Bridge.
Claire featured in the CIO100 list 2018, 2019 and 2020, is a regular judge on the panel of the Women in IT Awards (having won and been shortlisted for awards in previous years ).
A member of the International Association of Facilitators and STEM ambassador, Claire also launched the ‘Connectivity across London’ initiative with peers from Camden Council and University of London some years ago.
Until this month Claire sat on the UCISA Board of Trustees, an organisation that helps transform teaching, learning and research in education by better harnessing the power of digital through the exchange of knowledge. She describes herself as being passionate about 3 things – technology as an enabler, inclusion and boxing.