Claire Tavernier

Board chair and non-executive director with a career at the intersection of technology, media and content rights.

Claire Tavernier has spent her career building and governing organisations where technology reshapes creative industries. She spent twelve years at Fremantle leading its global digital division, negotiating landmark platform partnerships with YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and overseeing rights management and licensing for major global formats including American Idol, The X Factor and Got Talent. She subsequently served as CEO and COO of Girl Effect, a global media and technology organisation operating across nine countries in Africa and Asia.

She now focuses on board and governance roles across the creative economy. She chairs the Film and TV Charity and has previously served as Chair of Charity Digital, Trustee of the Institute of Imagination, and Non-Executive Director of the British Board of Film Classification, where she chaired the Remuneration Committee. She chairs the ScreenSkills Emerging Skills Workgroup on AI and the future screen workforce, and co-hosts The Media Beat Podcast.

Current Roles

Chair, The Film and TV Charity
Chair, ScreenSkills Emerging Skills Workgroup
Co-host, The Media Beat Podcast

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