Claire Dupont is a Research Professor of European and International Governance at Ghent University’s Department of Public Governance. Since 2016, she has served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, and in 2022, she was elected Chair of the
Scientific Committee. Since 2021, Claire is also serving as a member of the Luxembourg Climate Policy Observatory.
Her research has long focused on EU climate and energy governance, with particular research interests in climate policy integration and the interactions between the internal and external dimensions of EU policy,
and the role of the EU in the world. More recently, her work has turned to studies of approaches to governing the broader transition to sustainability.