Clarissa Farr is an experienced leader in education, a non-executive director and a writer. She was High Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School in west London, one of the UK's leading secondary schools, for eleven years from 2006-2017 and was previously Principal of Queenswood School. Currently a Director of Education for Inspired, an international schools group with over 40 schools on four continents, Clarissa is also a Fellow of Winchester College and a Governor of The Royal Ballet School.

She as a founding member of the board of the African Gifted Foundation which has a new school in Accra for talented young African women in the sciences. She recently joined the global advisory board of a newly launched US company, Whittle School and Studios. She has been a Trustee of the British Museum since 2016 and now chairs the Friends' Advisory Council, which represents the Museum's 75000 members.