Richard was an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge and went on to have an academic career in Anthropology.
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.
Note
Alison Richard gained her Professorship at Yale, not Cambridge, and University statutes indicate that she is not strictly entitled to use the title in office. However this slight technicality is ignored and she is referred to and uses the title Professor.
See also
List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
External link
Vice-Chancellor's Office, University of Cambridge (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/v-c/)
ProfessorAlisonRichard was installed as the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on 1 October 2003.
She was appointed full professor in 1986, chairing the Department of Anthropology at Yale from 1986 to 1990, and later serving as Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, where she oversaw one of the most important university natural history collections in the USA.
At Cambridge, ProfessorRichard has launched an ambitious fundraising campaign for £1 billion to underpin and augment core expenditure, introduced new measures for the stewardship of the University's investments, and developed a bursary fund to ensure that undergraduate students and applicants are not disadvantaged by the national introduction of higher university tuition fees.
Professor¹Alison Fettes Richard (born 1 March 1948 in Kent, United Kingdom) is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Richard was an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge, before gaining a PhD at the University of London, and went on to have an academic career in Physical Anthropology with a specialisation in the lemurs of Madagascar.
AlisonRichard gained her Professorship at Yale, not Cambridge, and University statutes indicate that she is not strictly entitled to use the title in office.
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