The Royal Society
Claire Craig has a broad range of experience spanning various sectors and organizations. Claire currently holds the position of Provost at The Queen's College, Oxford since August 2019. Prior to this, they worked as the Chief Science Policy Officer at The Royal Society, a role they held from February 2016.
Claire's experience in the government sector includes serving as the Director of the Government Office for Science from July 2011 to January 2016. In this role, they provided science advice and evidence to the UK Government, including strategic futures work through the Foresight programme.
Claire also held positions at the King's College London as a Member of Council (2013-2016), the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as the Director of Skills (2010-2011), and the Office of Fair Trading as the Senior Director of Strategy and Planning (2008-2010).
Prior to their government and academic roles, Claire worked as an Associate at McKinsey & Company from January 1997 to July 1999. In this position, they focused on strategy and organizational development in the energy and leisure sectors. Claire was also involved in the establishment of the Financial Services Authority and the benchmarking of UK national productivity.
In addition to their professional experience, Claire has been involved in various educational institutions and organizations. Claire was an Associate Fellow at Newnham College from 2003 to 2006, the Director of Foresight UK at the Office of Science and Technology from 2002 to 2006, and a Governor at the University of the West of England from 2001 to 2006.
Overall, Claire Craig's extensive work experience showcases their expertise in science policy, government advisory roles, strategy consulting, and academic institutions.
Claire Craig pursued their higher education at the University of Cambridge. From 1979 to 1982, they completed their Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Natural Sciences. Subsequently, they continued their academic journey at the Department of Earth Sciences in the University of Cambridge, where they obtained their PhD in Geophysics from 1982 to 1986.
The Royal Society
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. The backbone of the Society is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists of the day, elected by peer review for life and entitled to use FRS after their name. There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates amongst the Society's approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. Throughout its history, the Society has promoted excellence in science through its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. The Society is independent of government, as it has been throughout its existence, by virtue of its Royal Charters. In 1663, The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge was granted its Arms and adopted the motto "Nullius in verba", an expression of its enduring commitment to empirical evidence as the basis of knowledge about the natural world. The Society's activities include influencing science and education policy, funding leading researchers, publishing journals that span all the sciences and the history of science, and the provision of science communication activities for a variety of public audiences.