Neave O'Clery
Neave O’Clery is Professor of Cities and Networks, and Director of Research, at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London where she leads an inter-disciplinary research group focused on data-driven models for economic development and developing cities. She is currently seconded part time to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Her work spans a number of topics and fields including economic complexity and evolutionary economic geography, the informal economy, urban mobility and network science. Neave was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, and before this a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is founder and Chair of the Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks, an annual multi-disciplinary summer school since 2017. She holds a PhD (mathematics) from Imperial College.