Lucy Clarke is a Partner at Greenwood Place. Lucy is a specialist charity and philanthropy lawyer by background and has worked at leading international law firms in London, where she advised a wide range of not for profit organisations and individuals.

Before joining Greenwood Place, Lucy was a consultant for UK and international charities, with a particular focus on governance. In this role, she supported a number of trustee boards through periods of strategic change and worked alongside individuals establishing and expanding charities operating overseas.

Lucy has also worked as a freelance writer for Practical Law, contributing to the development of resources on governance issues for charity trustees and their advisors, and at the Institute for Philanthropy.

Her voluntary roles include serving as a trustee of several operational and grant making charities, and working in legal access and youth opportunity projects in Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka. Lucy studied English and Theology at Cambridge University and Development Studies at SOAS.