Claire Bodanis

Claire is one of the UK’s leading authorities on corporate reporting, and the founder and director of Falcon Windsor, a specialist reporting and communications advisory company. FW is a team of senior reporting and communications specialists who advise clients, mostly global PLC, on every aspect of reporting, with the exception of the financial statements. What sets FW apart is Claire’s philosophy: it is only by understanding why we are required to report that we can navigate the complexities of regulation and do it well. This philosophy meant Claire was asked by the UK Chartered Governance Institute to write the standard work on reporting. With a foreword by Sir Donald Brydon, and contributions from experts across the reporting world, Trust me, I’m listed – why the annual report matters and how to do it well, was published (second edition) in October 2021. In November 2022, Claire was invited by the King to Buckingham Palace to recognise Falcon Windsor’s contribution as a small business to the UK economy.

Claire came to corporate reporting by way of four years and two degrees at Cambridge University, editing mediaeval texts and honing a love of language and a knack for translating incomprehensible jargon into modern, clear English. She is the co-author of three books with the Dark Angels Collective, including On Writing, to which she contributed a chapter on corporate reporting, published in 2019. She is an Associate Partner of Dark Angels, a global network of trainers and writers whose philosophy is that business writing should be more human.