Claire De Than is a senior academic with 30 years of experience in law, politics, governance, leadership, and trade union representation, standing for Deputy of St Helier Central. She pledges to enhance Jersey's strengths through teamwork, evidence-based policymaking, stakeholder engagement, and a skills audit to grow and retain talent. She supports Value Jersey’s priorities for cheaper choices like supermarkets, taxis, and loans, cutting government waste, and rebooting the local economy to make Jersey more affordable.
Issue PositionsAI-extracted
Supports more cheaper choices such as supermarkets, taxis, and loans to make Jersey more affordable.
Support cheaper supermarkets, taxis, loans
“More cheaper choices: like cheaper supermarkets, cheaper taxis, and cheaper loans”
Supports conducting a skills audit to identify strengths and rebooting the local economy.
Conduct skills audit
“We need a skills audit”
Reboot local economy
“Rebooting local economy”
Supports cutting government waste for better efficiency.
Cut government waste
“Cutting government waste”
Claire De Than
Candidate for Deputy St. Helier Central
I am standing for Deputy of St Helier Central because I have lived and worked in Jersey for long enough to know what is wonderful, and elsewhere for long enough to know what needs to change. I am offering to use my 30 years of relevant skills, experience and education to enhance the strengths and help to fix what doesn’t work. That needs to be done by working well with others, and I combine leadership experience with hands-on teamwork in everything I do.
As a senior academic who has run successful higher education institutions in Jersey, London and internationally, I have built motivated and effective teams from scratch, been brought in to solve problems by joining established teams, and taught thousands of people how to do the same.I am qualified and experienced in many fields: law, politics, good governance, research, leadership, mediation, negotiation, representation and stakeholder engagement. I have contributed to the work of the Policy Centre Jersey, chaired the Jersey Law Commission, adjudicated for the media regulator IMPRESS, and held many charity leadership roles in Jersey and the UK. It’s clear that government and the third sector need better partnership, long term planning, and clarity.