Claudia Frère-Anderson is the Director of the UW's Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability office and oversees communications, reporting, and programs in addition to supervising staff and many students and interns. Frère-Anderson started her career in the financial services industry prior to working in the nonprofit/social entrepreneurship sector in the San Francisco Bay Area. In these positions, she launched community involvement plans for multinational companies and advised corporations with corporate social responsibility program implementations.
Frère-Anderson graduated Cum Laude in Politics from the University of San Francisco and received an MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility from Nottingham University Business School in the UK where she received a full scholarship from the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR). While in graduate school, Frère-Anderson launched the business school's first Net Impact Chapter and led post-graduate students with environmental engagement projects. Frère-Anderson volunteers with various nonprofit organizations and served as a Board Advisor to the Seattle Net Impact Professional Chapter.