Claire Craig

Claire Craig CBE
Born	Claire Harvey Craig (1962-02-08) February 8, 1962 (age 63) [1] Scunthorpe
Education	Redland High School for Girls 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)
Website	www.queens.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-claire-craig

Claire Harvey Craig CBE (born 1961) ^[1] is a British geophysicist, civil servant and science communicator. ^{[2] [3]} She was Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford from 2019 to 2025.

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 Ph.D. 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 from 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] She was succeeded by Paul Johnson on 2 August 2025. ^[10]

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. ^[11] In 2021 she received a Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Bath. ^[12]

Personal life

Craig married Christopher Diacopoulos in 1999. ^[1]

References

1. Anon (2017). "Harvey, Dr Claire Harvey" . Who's Who (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U261983.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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 (16). Cambridge: Newnham College, Cambridge: 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. "Queen's announces pre-election of next Provost". The Queen's College, Oxford. 17 October 2024.
11. "No. 58014". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 17 June 2006. pp. 1–28.
12. O'Neill, Eamonn. "Dr Claire H Craig: oration". University of Bath . Retrieved 18 June 2024.

Academic offices
Preceded by Paul Madden	Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford 2019 -	Succeeded by Incumbent