Originally from Dublin, Neave O'Clery is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and Turing Fellow.

She was previously 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. Neave is also founder and Editor in Chief of Angle, an online journal focusing on the intersection of policy, politics and science since 2009. Her current research focuses on data and network modelling of economic development and urban systems.