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Deputy Head of the Government Office for Science
Claire has joined the Civil Service twice. In between, she worked for the strategy consultancy McKinsey & Co and at the Confederation of British Industry. She also helped launch a Millennium Funded hands-on science centre and leisure destination in her home town of Bristol.
She was awarded a CBE for her leadership of Foresight, a programme of science-based strategic futures projects reporting to the Government's Chief Scientific Advisor and various Ministers. She then moved to the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and has subsequently worked in strategy and policy in the Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office, Office of Fair Trading and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Claire has a lifelong interest in science and in learning, having been involved with several educational institutions as a Governor or Fellow. These include a teaching University and a Cambridge College. Her first degree was in physics and she did a short stint of post-Doctoral work in geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin.
