Alison Richard

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Alison Richard
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Term	2004 – present
Predecessor	Alec Broers
Born	1 March 1948 (1948-03-01) (age 61) Bromley, Kent, England
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge King's College London
Residence	Cambridge, England
Religion	Episcopalian
Salary	£227,000[1]
Spouse	Robert E. Dewar[2]
Children	Charlotte Dewar and Bessie Dewar[2]

Alison Fettes Richard (born 1 March 1948 in Kent, England) is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. She is the first female Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge since the post became full-time.^[3] She is also the president of the Cambridge Network.^[4]

Richard was an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge, before gaining a PhD at King's College London, and went on to have an academic career in Physical Anthropology with a specialization in lemurs. She chaired the Department of Anthropology at Yale from 1986 to 1990, and later served as director of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Following that she was Franklin Muzzy Crosby Professor of the Human Environment in 1998. From 1994 until 2002, she was Provost of Yale University and was offered the post of Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge in 2003 following the end of Professor Alec Broers' seven year term.^[5] Her own term will expire in September 2010.^[6] Leszek Borysiewicz has been confirmed in his nomination to replace her.^[7][8]

[edit] See also

• List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge

[edit] External links

• Vice-Chancellor's Office, University of Cambridge
• Interview of Alison Richard by Alan Macfarlane 21st August 2008 (film)

[edit] Notes and References

Academic offices
Preceded by Sir Alec Broers	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 2003-Present	Succeeded by Present incumbent

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