Claire Craig

Claire Harvey Craig CBE is a British geophysicist, civil servant and science communicator. Since 2019, she has been Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.

Education

Craig was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she gained a BA in natural science in 1982. In 1986, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy, also from the University of Cambridge.[1]

Career

Craig was the Director of Government Office for Science and later Chief Science Policy Officer at the Royal Society.[2]

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 UK government’s scientific-based strategic future’s program.[3]

On 10 October 2018 it was announced that she had been pre-elected to serve as the next Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford from 2 August 2019; she is the first woman to hold the post.[4]

gollark: I'm somewhat annoyed about only having a Linux-running computer (and ancient Windows 7-running laptop) now.
gollark: Or a mechanical computer!
gollark: Instead of using the very slow but more elegant physical laws, just have some horrible bodgey things which mostly just work on humans.
gollark: You don't really need to do it in great detail.
gollark: Who's this "Winter"?

References
  1. Yvonne Craig Inskip. "Yvonne Craig Inskip (NC 1955) – A family of women activists" (PDF). Changing Lives. No. Summer 2015. Cambridge: Newnham College, Cambridge. p. 6. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. "Claire Craig". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  3. "No. 58014". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 17 June 2006. pp. 1–28.
  4. "The Queen's College announces pre-election of its next Provost". The Queen's College. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Paul Madden		 Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford
2019 -		 Succeeded by
Incumbent


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