Claire Craig

Claire Harvey Craig (born 1961) 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 Redland High School for Girls 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.

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. She served as director of Government Office for Science and later Chief Science Policy Officer at the Royal Society. She serves as a member of the AI Council.

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. In January 2024 it was announced that she would stand down as Provost during the next academic year.

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. In 2021 she received a Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Bath.

Personal life
Craig married Christopher Diacopoulos in 1999.