Clare Blackwell is a Research Analyst for the Urban Development team and leads the Deep Dive Initiative, which provides strategic funding and increases technical capacity across WRI's offices worldwide to support a wide range of projects, from decarbonizing transportation and enhancing climate action, to strengthening disaster preparedness and urban resilience. Her work across the Deep Dive Initiative and other UD projects focuses on bringing WRI teams and partners together to create efficient, innovative projects that drive transformation toward equitable, healthy, sustainable cities worldwide.

Prior to joining WRI, Clare worked as a junior researcher with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre on climate-smart urban conflict recovery and helped publish a report on China's BRI initiative in Central Asia with the Oxford Silk Road Society. Her background (and her heart) is in environmental education, especially about urban natures.

Clare holds a M.Sc. in Nature, Society, and Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford and a B.S. in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Tufts University. When not reading, writing, or teaching about environmental issues, she can be found crafting, singing, playing board games, or kayaking on the nearest lake.