Claire Bulger

Claire Bulger is the Executive Director of International Politics and Strategic Foresight, based in Paris. In this role, which she started in 2025, she is responsible for overseeing ECF’s international portfolio, supporting actors to increase the climate-positive impact of Europe’s role in the world, international partnerships, and global diplomacy towards supporting ambition and Paris Agreement implementation.

She also oversees ECF’s Strategic Foresight work, a role she started in 2022, where she is responsible for scenario planning and exploring trends, risks, and emerging issues to bring longer-term thinking and geopolitical analysis to ECF strategies. Claire initially joined the ECF in 2017 as Chief of Staff to CEO Laurence Tubiana, working across the organisation to support the CEO’s strategy development and activities.

Prior to joining the ECF, she served as the first Director of Research and Strategy at the Parker Foundation in San Francisco. She was also the Director of Special Projects and Special Assistant to the Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, where she worked on initiatives including the World Happiness Report, the Millennium Villages Project, and numerous books and reports.

Claire has a Master’s degree from Sciences Po, Paris, and a Bachelor’s in History from Harvard University.