Alison Richard was born in bromley, Kent on March 1948. My father has been doing business in Chile for a long time. Mother married late because she had to take care of her sick mother.

Go to private primary school at the age of 4. /kloc-boarding middle school at the age of 0/3. I graduated from structural anthropology, Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree and received a doctorate in biology from London University. 1972 went to Yale university, and 1986 became a professor of anthropology in this school. From 1986 to 1990, he was the head of the anthropology department of Yale University, and from 199 1 to 1994, he was the head of the Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University, which played an important role in raising 20 million yuan for the museum. 1994-2002 served as the provost of Yale University, responsible for the educational policies and academic strategies of all departments and units in the school, including Yale College, Graduate School, 10 Professional College and Research Center. Professor Richard is also the main person in charge of Yale University's budget and long-term financial planning. In 2004, he was awarded the honorary doctorate of Peking University.

After Alison Richard became the president of Cambridge University, on the one hand, he paid attention to the internal management innovation of the university, implemented the emerging management measures of university investment, and improved the administrative efficiency of the university; On the other hand, actively strive for up to one billion dollars of financial support and expand the construction of basic courses, and set up scholarships to ensure that students will not lose their learning opportunities in the face of high tuition fees. Alison Richard is famous for studying the evolution of complex social systems of primates, mainly in Central America and northern Pakistan. In the past 15, she made a field survey focusing on Madagascar. His works include Nature and Behavior Differences of Primates: A Case Study of Malagasy Lemurs.

She is also a member of many professional organizations and scientific advisory committees. She has been a member of the board of directors of the World Wildlife Fund since 1995. He is also the director of the Liz Claiborne/Art and Ortenberg Foundation of Yale University.

At present, she is the chairman of Cambridge Net, which is the talent information platform of local high-tech enterprises in Cambridge.