# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louise-richardson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:31:40.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louise-richardson"
name: "Louise Richardson"
slug: "louise-richardson"
description: "Dame Louise Mary Richardson is an Irish political scientist whose specialist field is the study of terrorism. In January 2023, she became president of the philanthropic foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York. In January 2016, she became the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, having formerly been the principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews, and as the executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her leadership at the University of Oxford played an important role in the successful development of a vaccine to combat COVID-19."
tagline: "Irish political scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louise_Richardson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           9.665808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump