Originally from Dublin, Neave O'Clery is currently a Fulbright Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School where she is working in the field of complexity/network theory and economic development. Neave received her PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College London, and was previously an MSc student at Lincoln College, Oxford. She undertook her undergraduate studies at University College Dublin, which included a year at Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne. Neave is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of A Global Village, a online and print publication focusing on the intersection between science, policy, politics and international affairs.