Oxford Names St. Andrews’s Richardson as First Female Leader
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The University of Oxford named Louise Richardson as its new leader, making the scholar of terrorism and security studies the first woman to run the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Richardson, currently the principal and vice chancellor of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, will succeed Andrew Hamilton on Jan. 1, pending a vote of the Oxford faculty, the English university said Thursday. Hamilton is leaving to become president of New York University.