# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alison-richard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:06:35.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alison-richard"
name: "Alison Richard"
slug: "alison-richard"
description: "Dame Alison Fettes Richard, is an English anthropologist, conservationist and university administrator. She was the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the third Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge since the post became full-time, and the second woman. Before arriving at Cambridge, she served as the provost of Yale University from 1994 to 2002."
tagline: "British academic, anthropologist and conservationist (1948 - )"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Alison_Richard_Building%2C_Cambridge_university.jpg/330px-Alison_Richard_Building%2C_Cambridge_university.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Alison Richard"
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    title: "أليسون ريتشارد"
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    title: "Alison Richard"
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    title: "एलिसन रिचर्ड"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump