Claire Craig

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Claire Craig

CBE
Born
Claire Harvey Craig

(1962-02-08) February 8, 1962 (age 62) [1]
Education Redland High School for Girls
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Spouse
Christopher Diacopoulos
(m. 1999)
Scientific career
Institutions University of Oxford
University of Texas at Austin
McKinsey & Company
Thesis Numerical modelling of mantle convection and the geoid  (1985)
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Claire Harvey Craig CBE (born 1961) [1] is a British geophysicist, civil servant and science communicator. [2] [3] Since 2019, she has been Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.

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Education

Craig was educated at Redland High School for Girls [1] and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1982. In 1985, she was awarded a PhD also from the University of Cambridge for research on numerical modelling of mantle convection and the geoid. [4] [5]

Career and research

Criag was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin from 1986 to 1987 and an associate at McKinsey & Company form 1997 to 1999. [1] She served as director of Government Office for Science and later Chief Science Policy Officer at the Royal Society. [6] She serves as a member of the AI Council. [7]

In 2018 it was announced that she had been pre-elected to serve as the Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford from 2 August 2019; she is the first woman to hold the post. [8] In January 2024 it was announced that she would stand down as Provost during the next academic year. [9]

Awards and honours

Craig was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours in recognition of her role in the development of Foresight, the government of the United Kingdom's scientific-based strategic futures program. [10]

Personal life

Craig married Christopher Diacopoulos in 1999. [1]

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References

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  2. Christl A. Donnelly; Ian Boyd; Philip Campbell; et al. (1 June 2018). "Four principles to make evidence synthesis more useful for policy". Nature . 558 (7710): 361–364. doi:10.1038/D41586-018-05414-4. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   29925978. Wikidata   Q59082105.
  3. Craig, Claire (2019). How Does Government Listen to Scientists?. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96086-9. ISBN   978-3-319-96085-2.
  4. Craig, Claire Harvey (1985). Numerical modelling of mantle convection and the geoid. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC   59687204. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.372867.
  5. Yvonne Craig Inskip (2015). "Yvonne Craig Inskip (NC 1955) – A family of women activists" (PDF). Changing Lives. Cambridge: Newnham College, Cambridge (16): 6. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  6. Anon (2014). "Claire Craig". royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 2017-09-08. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  7. "The AI Council, an independent expert committee, provides advice to Government and high-level leadership of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem". gov.uk.
  8. "The Queen's College announces pre-election of its next Provost". The Queen's College. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  9. "Announcement from the Provost". Queen's College, Oxford. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  10. "No. 58014". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 17 June 2006. pp. 1–28.
Academic offices
Preceded by Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford
2019 -
Succeeded by
Incumbent