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About

I’ve spent my career working where politics meets policy.

I’ve worked inside political parties and governments, run a think tank, advised foundations and international organizations, and worked on campaigns and major initiatives in the US, UK and internationally.

I’ve learned a lot about how change actually happens, and why it so often doesn’t. Now I’ve become interested in a more fundamental question.

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Claire M. Healy

What happens when the conditions on which our political and economic systems were built begin to change?

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engagements

Thought partnership

A facilitated inquiry or retreat

A small group convening

An emerging-ideas research project

A political economy analysis

A new initiative or programme design

Alongside my consulting work, I am pursuing doctoral research at Georgetown University focused on democratic self-government under conditions planetary interdependence and powerful structural forces.

My interest is not in predicting the future.

It is in creating the space to think seriously about it — together.

Education

  • Georgetown University, Doctor of Liberal Arts – present
  • Harvard Kennedy School, Master of Public Administration, 2002–2004
  • London School of Economics, Master of European Social Policy, 1996–1997
  • University of Sheffield, Economics and Social Policy, 1992–1995

Career Highlights:

  • E3G
    Senior Associate, Executive Director, Program Director; Washington, DC
  • US Department of Energy
    Senior Adviser, International Climate Change and Clean Energy; Washington, DC
  • Centreground Political Communications
    Director, London
  • Mayor of Los Angeles
    Director of Performance Management, Los Angeles
  • The Labour Party
    Head of Policy & Health Policy Officer, London
Fuller resume

Every society makes choices about what kind of future it wants.

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E3G

Executive Director of this small, feisty think tank working on climate politics and diplomacy in Washington DC.

The Rockefeller Foundation

I was an independent consultant and grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation for five years, providing diplomatic advice for their Global Economic Resilience and Energy Transition initiatives.

US Department of Energy

Worked as a Senior Adviser in the International Office of U.S. Department of Energy working closely on the Clean Energy Ministerial, Mission Innovation and with the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

City of Los Angeles

I oversaw the Delivery Unit for Mayor Villaraigosa’s first term and led a strategy process for his second term agenda.

The Labour Party

I cut my teeth working in the Policy Unit of the Labour Party first on health policy, then economic and international policy. When promoted to Head of Policy I led the party’s policy-making process and managed several by-election campaigns.

E3G

Executive Director of this small, feisty think tank working on climate politics and diplomacy in Washington DC.

The Rockefeller Foundation

I was an independent consultant and grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation for five years, providing diplomatic advice for their Global Economic Resilience and Energy Transition initiatives.

US Department of Energy

Worked as a Senior Adviser in the International Office of U.S. Department of Energy working closely on the Clean Energy Ministerial, Mission Innovation and with the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

City of Los Angeles

I oversaw the Delivery Unit for Mayor Villaraigosa’s first term and led a strategy process for his second term agenda.

The Labour Party

I cut my teeth working in the Policy Unit of the Labour Party first on health policy, then economic and international policy. When promoted to Head of Policy I led the party’s policy-making process and managed several by-election campaigns.

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