Christine Heenan is the founder and Senior Partner of Clarendon Group, a leadership advising and strategic communications firm. She also serves as a partner and advisor to biotech venture creation firm Flagship Pioneering, the founder of more than 100 biotechnology companies including Generate, Tessera, Inari, and Moderna. ​

At Flagship she built and led a corporate affairs function responsible for communications, government relations/regulatory affairs, digital and creative strategy, and brand and marketing across Flagship and its 40-plus ecosystem companies. She previously served as Senior Vice President for Global Policy and Advocacy at The Rockefeller Foundation, Senior Advisor at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and as Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications at Harvard University.​

She has led Clarendon’s work advising CEOs, non-profit leaders, and university presidents, as well as institutional philanthropies and family office clients, including the Gates Foundation, the Ballmer Group, the Rockefeller Family Office, and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. She has led crisis response and crisis communications for clients across higher education, retail, technology, AI, consumer goods, and arts and culture, as well as for business leaders, elected officials, and prominent families.​

Christine served in the Clinton White House as a Senior Policy Analyst and speechwriter. She taught at Brown University and Harvard College and served as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. ​

She has directed and helped build award-winning podcasts and documentary films, and serves on the board of the David Rockefeller Fund, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and YourBio Health.​