Claire DuPont is a research professor of European and international governance at Ghent University, with a deep knowledge of the political economy of climate action.

For her policy changes, she chose to better integrate the humanities and social sciences into the policy process, to invest in infrastructure and public services for climate resilience and climate justice, and to do proper climate risk assessments.

For her personal changes, she spoke about trying to eat a plant based diet and doing more civic and community engagement.