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Clare Hobby

Director, Purchaser Engagement, Global, TCO Development

Clare leads global purchaser engagement for TCO Development, the organization behind TCO Certified, the global independent sustainability certification for IT products. TCO Certified is used by procuring organizations and the IT industry worldwide as a tool for driving environmental and supply chain responsibility into the IT ecosystem. Compliance at the product, supply chain and brand levels is independently verified. Clare oversees purchaser engagement programs globally and is active in a number of sustainability initiatives in the IT space – including SPLC’s Technical Advisory Group for IT Hardware, the Clean Electronics Production Network, UN Environment’s One Planet network the Canadian Public Procurement Council, and the Transform Together Initiative for SDG12. She is the lead author of TCO Development’s 2017 report, Impacts and Insights and holds Masters degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Melbourne, Australia as well as Executive Education in Sustainability at Harvard.