Clare Melford
{{Short description|Businessperson}}
{{BLP sources |date=May 2012}}
File:Clare Melford - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2012 crop.jpg Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2012]]
Clare Melford was the CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum [https://archive.today/20130415050644/http://www.iblf.org/latest-news/2010/2010_Jan_Feb/Nov-4-2010-IBLF-announces-Clare-Melford-as-new-CEO.aspx from November 2010] until [https://archive.today/20130415040654/http://www.iblf.org/latest-news/2011-2012/November-26-2012-IBLF-CEO-steps-down.aspx she stepped down in November 2012].
She graduated from Oxford University and trained as a management consultant at Marakon Associates. She worked as general manager for MTV Nordic for eight years.[http://www.kampanje.com/jobb/article5249810.ece "Nordic chief leaves MTV" kampanje.com 1/2/2007]{{Cite web |url=http://www.realtid.se/ArticlePages/200506/29/20050629182206_Realtid263/20050629182206_Realtid263.dbp.asp |title=NY regim på MTV - Realtid.se |access-date=2012-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719203126/http://realtid.se/ArticlePages/200506/29/20050629182206_Realtid263/20050629182206_Realtid263.dbp.asp |archive-date=2013-07-19 |url-status=dead }} She took a leadership role in the transition of the European Council on Foreign Relations to independent status from previously being a part of George Soros' Open Society Foundations.[http://www.iblf.org/latest-news/2010/2010_Jan_Feb/Nov-4-2010-IBLF-announces-Clare-Melford-as-new-CEO.aspx IBLF appoints Clare Melford as its new Chief Executive] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130415050644/http://www.iblf.org/latest-news/2010/2010_Jan_Feb/Nov-4-2010-IBLF-announces-Clare-Melford-as-new-CEO.aspx |date=2013-04-15 }}, accessed December 18, 2012
She has been CEO of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a not-for-profit organisation which provides disinformation risk ratings, but in 2020 the subject was listed as secretary with no compensation in federal tax filings.Nonprofit Explorer. (4 November 2021). ProPublica. 2020 IRS Form 990. [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/852450338 ProPublica website] Retrieved 10 March 2023.[https://www.disinformationindex.org/about "Global Disinformation Index"][https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-melford-69ab56/?originalSubdomain=uk "LindkedIn profile"]
She explained in a talk delivered to the Royal Society of Arts that it was while she was general manager of the Nordic region of MTV that she developed a critical understanding of how the media station provided a supportive selling environment for unsustainable lifestyles, which led to her giving up that position and becoming interested in Buddhism.Four Thought Series 3, BBC, broadcast Radio 4 May 2, 2012