Craig Fox was born and raised in Los Angeles. In high school he was a nationally ranked speaker, a competent fencer, and an occasional reporter for the school newspaper. Upon graduating Harvard School in 1985, Craig defected from Southern California to attend U.C. Berkeley. There he double majored in Psychology and Economics. He also worked as a reporter, anchor, and producer at KALX-FM, traveled with the speech team, and worked in psychology labs on campus. Craig spent summers working in children’s camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Graduating in 1989, he spent the 1989-90 year working as Editorial Associate for the journal Cognitive Psychology and later traveling throughout Europe. From 1990-94 he pursued a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Stanford and continued to travel when he could find the time. An obnoxious fan of Cal football, he suffered copious taunting from Stanford fans during those four years. From 1994-96 Craig shivered through two Chicago winters as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern University). In the summer of 1996, he embarked on the tenure track at Duke, closing escrow on his first home just in time for it to be pummeled by a major hurricane. During the last few years, Craig has managed brief academic visits to the University of Chicago, University of Mannheim, Hebrew University, and UCLA. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Craig enjoys running, racquetball, adventure sports, world travel, live music and theater, playing piano, and cheering the Blue Devils on to victory.