Founder and CEO, DemocracyNext
Claudia Chwalisz is the founder and CEO of DemocracyNext, an international non-profit, non-partisan research and action institute working to build new institutions for the next democratic paradigm of citizen participation, representation by lot, and deliberation. Chwalisz was part of the small group of experts who designed the permanent Citizens’ Assembly in Paris, as well as the Ostbelgien Citizens’ Council, the world’s first permanent deliberative body made up of people drawn by civic lottery. Until June 2022, she led the OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation.