Claire Craig

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 Ph.D. 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 from 1997 to 1999. 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. She was succeeded by Paul Johnson on 2 August 2025.

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 an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Bath.

Personal life Craig married Christopher Diacopoulos in 1999.