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Dr Claire Craig

Vice-President, International Network for Government Science Advice

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Dr Claire Craig is the Provost (Head) of The Queen’s College, Oxford, UK. She has extensive… (more)

Dr Claire Craig is the Provost (Head) of The Queen’s College, Oxford, UK. She has extensive experience of science in public reasoning, decision-making and strategy. Before moving to Oxford, Claire was Chief Science Policy Officer at the Royal Society and, during a variety of roles in government, worked for three UK Government Chief Scientific Advisors, was a member of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and was the Director of the Government Office for Science. She was awarded a CBE for her part in developing Foresight, the UK’s science-based strategic futures programme. She was a member of Faculty at the World Economic Forum and a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. She began life as a geophysicist. Her first book was How does government listen to scientists? and her second, co-authored with Professor Sarah Dillon, is Storylistening: narrative evidence and public reasoning