Carolyn Clarke is a chartered accountant and member of the council of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors. She qualified with PwC and spent 20 years in roles including external audit, transactions, internal audit, risk, governance, conduct and controls optimization. After admission to partnership in 2008 Carolyn established PwC as the leading international firm in Mongolia. In 2015 Carolyn moved to take on an in-house Head of Audit, Risk and Control role with Centrica plc, the largest utility and energy company in the UK. Carolyn founded and leads a boutique consultancy focused on assurance, risk, governance and control activities, Brave Consultancy. She chairs the board of Care International UK, a global international development and humanitarian organization and is an independent director of Starling Bank, a pioneering digital bank, where she chairs the Ethics and Sustainability Committee.