Laura Mary Clarke OBE (born 3 June 1978) is the CEO of ClientEarth[3] a global non-profit environmental law organisation.

Clarke took up her role as High Commissioner to New Zealand, and Governor of the Pitcairn Islands in January 2018.

Her previous role was as the UK Government's India Co-ordinator and Head of the South Asia Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

[7] In November 2018 the British High Commission employed its first Maori adviser and also a language teacher for Clarke.

[8] In October 2019 Clarke expressed regret, on behalf of the British Government, for the killing of 9 Māori during the first encounters with the crew of James Cook’s Endeavour.