Claire Haidar has affectionately been nicknamed "rocket fuel and chaos" by those who work closely with her, and for good reason.

Raised in South Africa, while the country was transitioning out of apartheid, she was no stranger to violence and intimidation as her family stood up against the expected norms of the day. The only child of an entrepreneurial father, who failed repeatedly at startups, and a mother who worked in the aerospace industry, she was familiar with hardship, hard work and the ethos of trying again and again.

After completing a graduate degree in entrepreneurship and industrial psychology, Claire moved to Europe where she spent a decade, building various technology companies in various capacities: founder, cofounder, board member and advisor. In late 2016 she raised funding and cofounded her sixth  company which grew into the USA within its first year of operation. Claire now serves as the executive chairman of the board for WNDYR. She has built a reputation as a scholar and thought leader in the future of work.

She and her husband have cofounded Dusk Observatories, a fully remotely accessible observatory with infrared, radio, deep space, lunar and solar telescopes. The Dusk Observatory team trains teachers and students in some of the most inaccessible places in the world, to operate the telescopes, and to capture images of deep space, right from their classrooms. She also serves on multiple non profit boards in the education space within Dallas. Most recently she has been asked to serve on the board of The Limitless Space Institute: an organization centred on interstellar travel.

Alongside her philanthropy, she is an avid pilot with her husband Mark Haidar.  She is also a sheep farmer, with a growing herd in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Their family have brought an entirely new species of sheep to the USA and are going through the very early cycles of breeding a flock where everything is new and completely experimental.

Her passion lies in preparing humanity to work, live and thrive in a multi-planetary world: which explains the chaos and the rocket fuel.