Speakers & moderators

Claire is a facilitator, process designer and researcher with experience in delivering participative processes which put citizens at the heart of decision making. In 2020, in collaboration with other partners, she launched the Global Citizens’ Assembly on the climate and ecological crisis for COP26, which received the backing from UN Secretary General, António Guterres.

Over the past few years, she has delivered more than fifteen citizens’ deliberative processes on climate change, at all levels: from the local to the global. She was part of the facilitation team at Climate Assembly UK and one of the accredited researchers who observed France’s Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat. With the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation (CAST) at Cardiff University, she did a comparative analysis of the two climate citizens’ assemblies.

In 2021, she was interviewed in Le Monde on the Global Assembly. She is the author of a Carnegie Europe article entitled “Getting Climate Citizens’ Assemblies Right”. She also contributed to the March-April 2021 edition of the New Internationalist on Citizens’ Assemblies.