Els Van Cleemput is a public policy manager in Knesselare, a Belgian town, where she manages and develops the support for the local government’s policies. She is an affiliate member of the Antwerp Management School and she has been in charge of the communication of the Town Hall of Ghent. She has focused her research on artificial intelligence, more specifically on the conditions that are necessary for an AI project to be successful in contact with the clients of the local authorities. She also collaborates with the dutch magazine AG Connect.