# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ottoline-leyser
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:12:16.287Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ottoline-leyser"
name: "Ottoline Leyser"
slug: "ottoline-leyser"
description: "Dame Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser is a British plant biologist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. From 2013 to 2020 she was the director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. From 2020 to 2025 she was CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)."
tagline: "British botanist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ottoline_Leyser_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1965-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "OttolineLeyser"
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    url:       "https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/leyser-ottoline"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump