Neave O’Clery is (Full) Professor of Cities and Networks, and Director of Research, at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London where she leads a research group focused on data-driven models for economic development, complex systems and cities. She also works alongside a wide variety of policy makers ranging from local and national government to global multilaterals such as the World Bank.

In 2022, she won the annual Complex Systems Society Junior Award “for contributions using complex systems and complex networks methodologies, including machine learning approaches, to the field of economic geography, and for contributions to creating bridges between science and policy making.”

Professor O’Clery was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. Before this she was a Fulbright Scholar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School following her PhD (mathematics) at Imperial College.