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Claire Zillman is a London-based senior editor for Fortune, where she writes and edits features about corporate leadership, with a focus on female executives. She also edits Fortune's flagship newsletter, CEO Daily, and co-chairs Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit. Her Fortune cover story, "The First Lady of Wall Street," about Jane Fraser's rise to become the first female CEO among Wall Street's big banks earned her a SABEW, and her feature on the then-unbroken glass ceiling at Wall Street’s banking giants won a New York Press Award. Claire has also worked for Fortune in New York and Hong Kong. Earlier in her career, she was a reporter for The American Lawyer magazine. She graduated with honors from Syracuse University with degrees in journalism and history and is originally from Chicago. She lives in East London with her husband and son.

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Newsletters4 less-obvious ways the COVID-19 pandemic is marginalizing women
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJuly 16, 2020
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NewslettersWhy the role of chief diversity officer is so fraught
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJuly 14, 2020
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Newsletters5 health experts on how to build trust and find inspiration in the pandemic
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJuly 9, 2020
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NewslettersMagic Leap’s Peggy Johnson long aspired to be a CEO. Too few women set that intention
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJuly 8, 2020
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Newsletters3 steps, 5 years: How one academic built a racially-diverse team
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJuly 2, 2020
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NewslettersThe unsettled future of Supreme Court abortion cases
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJune 30, 2020
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NewslettersThis is a moment for new names. Follow NASA’s lead.
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJune 26, 2020
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NewslettersHow 2 startup cofounders are dealing with 3 compounding crises
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJune 23, 2020
How to move corporate Juneteenth holidays beyond virtue signaling
NewslettersHow to move corporate Juneteenth holidays beyond virtue signaling
By Emma Hinchliffe and Claire ZillmanJune 19, 2020
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NewslettersWhy Stacey Abrams sees reason for optimism in the Georgia primary voting mess
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJune 18, 2020
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NewslettersThe woman who brought transgender workers’ issues before the Supreme Court will have a lasting legacy
By Kristen Bellstrom and Claire ZillmanJune 16, 2020
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NewslettersHow to avoid burning out your black employees right now
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJune 10, 2020
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Newsletters4 steps corporate leaders can take toward genuine allyship
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJune 4, 2020
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Newsletters‘Enough is enough:’ 3 corporate leaders on how to respond to the George Floyd protests
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeJune 2, 2020
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NewslettersPandemic lockdowns pose a new risk to working moms: the kid-interruption gap
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeMay 28, 2020
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