Claire Mason

Founder & CEO Man Bites Dog

Claire is the Founder of Man Bites Dog – a multi award-winning thought leadership consultancy with global reach.

Man Bites Dog specialises in working with intelligent organisations at the nexus of technology, professional and financial services to deliver visionary global marketing programmes to build reputation, deepen relationships and generate revenue. Claire has developed future-oriented global research and economics-based campaigns on subjects from the future of work and global trade to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the secrets of entrepreneurship.

With more than twenty years’ experience leading global strategic marketing programmes, Claire develops thought leadership campaigns for the world’s smartest organisations, from the Big Four and BP to Standard Chartered and Google.

Claire is an experienced keynote speaker on topics including global trade, entrepreneurship and diversity and inclusion. She is currently campaigning to close the Gender Say Gap® – the underrepresentation of women and other diverse groups in business and in public life – by increasing the visibility of thought-leading diverse experts.

Claire holds Board Directorships at organisations including Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership and Greater Brighton Economic Board. She is also Entrepreneur in Residence at the British Library.

Man Bites Dog has won more than eighty global awards and Claire is a proud recipient of Women in Marketing’s Female Marketing Leader of the Year Award. Claire has an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and a research MA with distinction from York University.