Clair Linzey

Clair Susan Linzey is a British theologian and ethicist, editor and writer. She is the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation, Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the director of their annual summer school, as well as a Research Fellow in Animal Ethics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Linzey is also co-editor, with her father, of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series and the Journal of Animal Ethics. She specialises in animal theology, animal ethics, environmental ethics, systematic theology, feminist theology and Christian moral thought.

Early life and education
Linzey is the daughter of the theologian Andrew Linzey. In 2004, she received a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she received several prizes. Linzey received two scholarships to study for a Master of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 2008. She received her Doctor of Philosophy on the ecological theology of Leonardo Boff, with a particular focus on its relation to animals, also from St Andrews.