Claudia is the founding CEO and a board member of the Cloudera Foundation. Working with partners around the globe, she and her team identify and support large-scale, data-driven opportunities to address the world’s pressing challenges in any area of critical need, such as in health, the environment, economic inequality, education and more. She is pioneering a foundation model that combines intellectual capital and private sector expertise with financial grants to help nonprofits realize impactful data capabilities.
Previously Claudia was Associate Vice President at the Rockefeller Foundation, leading the organization’s Strategic Insights Division. Claudia also was a
Vice President at DB Research, Deutsche Bank’s think tank for trends in business, society, and the financial markets.
Claudia advises organizations and consortiums worldwide. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Trustworthy Data Initiative, GovLab’s Global Advisory Group and 100Kin10’s Strategic Advisory Committee. She has a degree in information science from Cologne University of Applied Sciences and an International MBA from the University of Cologne.
Jul 08 2020 Blog Post Data Projects’ Secret to Success Is Not in the Algorithm
Jul 25 2017 Blog Post Building a Generation of Change Agents When Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, he was twenty-six years old. At twenty-four years old, Gandhi began his movement against racist pass laws in South Africa. Jane Adams started Hull House at the age of twenty-eight. The Dalai Lama led his people out of occupied Tibet into India before he was […]
Jan 10 2017 Blog Post An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Behavior: Learning from the First Bellagio Center Thematic Residency We’ve all been there. Do we choose the apple or the cookie? The gym or the couch? The new shoes or the savings account? We often know what we should do to be on our “best behavior,” but sometimes cravings take over. This frequent conflict between our actions and our best intentions can make […]
Jul 07 2016 Blog Post Influencing Human Behavior to Help Build Resilience and More Inclusive Economies Think of a topic you believe to be both incredibly interesting and highly relevant to improving the lives of millions of people. Got one? Now, imagine a group of leading thinkers, creators, and doers from all corners of the world who are all engaged in that topic coming together for a full month in a […]
Apr 18 2016 Blog Post What We Know, What We Don't, and Leveraging Trends to Achieve the SDGs How can the world get beyond the commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and move toward actual success? The OECD Global Forum on Development brought together policymakers, funders, and business leaders from around the world to discuss this question, and we shared some of our thoughts. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are designed to […]