Laura Clare

Senior Director of Communications EMEA at Snap Inc

Laura has 20 years communications experience working with the world’s biggest brands, Government departments, charities and NGOs to help build and manage their reputations. Laura has worked at Instagram for the last six years where she is the Director of Communications for EMEA, during a period when the platform has grown from 300m to 1bn + global users. In this role, Laura is responsible for setting the Instagram EMEA strategy across a diverse region, overseeing an international team who deliver corporate, lifestyle, business, crisis and internal communications, around high profile and often agenda setting issues. She advises the Instagram executive team and sits on the EMEA Instagram leadership team.

Prior to joining Instagram, she was a Board Director at Blue Rubicon (now Teneo) where she was responsible for building the agencies’ integrated communications offering, working with clients including Coca-Cola, Nike, This Girl Can, Unilever and the Department of Health.