圣安德鲁斯大学理事会宣布从2009年1月开始，Dr Louise Richardson将任职改大学校长。

 

Dr Richardson（50岁），现任哈佛大学Radcliffe研究所的行政院长，将于2008年12月现圣安德鲁斯大学校长Dr Brian Lang退休后接替其成为该大学下任校长。

 

Dr Richardson出生于爱尔兰共和国，是恐怖主义和政治暴力研究的世界著名领先者之一。

 

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Dr Richardson has taught and written widely on terrorism, international relations and British foreign and defence policy and her recent book "What Terrorists Want" is regarded as one of the most comprehensive and intellectually rigorous analyses of terrorism yet produced.

As Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Dr Richardson is the senior administrative officer and is responsible for the coordination of academic and administrative activities and the strategic management of administrative operations. She is responsible for developing both programmatic objectives and the infrastructure to realise them. She also represents the Radcliffe Institute on Harvard's Administrative Council and on other University-wide committees.

She is one of those credited with transforming Radcliffe from the former women's college at Harvard to an internationally respected Institute for Advanced Study which fosters interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Since her arrival at Radcliffe in 2001, she has spoken widely across the United States and abroad, to schools and universities, Harvard Clubs, academic conferences, Government officials and the security services. She has also been called to testify as an expert before the US Senate and appears regularly in the media.

In addition to her executive duties, Dr Richardson serves as Senior Lecturer in Government at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She is highly regarded both as an academic and an administrator.

Ewan Brown, Senior Governor of the Court of the University of St Andrews said:

"Louise is a very highly regarded academic leader and scholar who has been courted by some of the world's leading universities.

 "We are delighted that she has chosen to accept the challenge of leading Scotland's first university into a seventh century of academic achievement."

 Louise Richardson said:

"I am quite delighted and deeply honoured to have been given this extraordinary opportunity to lead St Andrews, an historic university whose long standing commitment to excellence in research and teaching is admired around the world."

Dr Richardson received a Bachelor's degree in history from Trinity College, Dublin in 1980. She earned Master's degrees in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and Harvard and in History from Trinity College, Dublin. She also has a Doctoral degree in Government from Harvard.

From 1989 to 2001, she was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Government at Harvard, specialising in international security. She served for eight years as chair of the Board of Tutors and as head tutor in the Department of Government.

She has served in numerous other administrative capacities at Harvard University, including the Faculty Council and various committees concerning such issues as undergraduate education, the status of women, and human rights.

Her academic focus has been on international security with an emphasis on terrorist movements. For several years, she taught Harvard's large undergraduate lecture course, Terrorist Movements in International Relations. For this, she won the Levenson Prize, awarded by the undergraduate student body to the best teachers at the University.

In addition to the Levenson Prize, Dr Richardson has received teaching awards from the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha for outstanding teaching in Political Science; the Abramson Award in recognition of her 'excellence and sensitivity in teaching undergraduates' and many awards from the Bok Center for Teaching Excellence.

Her research has been recognized with awards from such organisations as the Ford Foundation, the Milton Fund, the Sloan Foundation, the Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the United States Institute of Peace.

She is married to Dr Thomas Jevon MD and the couple have three children.

The President of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, said:

"Louise Richardson is a gifted leader with a deep commitment to academic values. Her outstanding management skills, her analytic abilities, her decisiveness and dedication have made her extraordinarily effective as the Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for the past seven years, while she has at the same time transformed the understanding of terrorism through her important intellectual work.

"St Andrews is to be congratulated for choosing such a fine scholar, administrator and human being as its Principal and Vice-Chancellor."

 

 

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