Louise M. Richardson

Richardson was the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of St. Andrews University through 2015. She helped to reshape and modernize Scottish higher education at St. Andrews. Earlier she served as Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute. From 1989 to 2001, she taught courses in international relations, international security, and terrorism as an assistant and then associate professor of government. During those years, she won numerous prizes for excellence in teaching. She was the Government department Head Tutor for many of those years. She has published What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006). Her other published works include When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations in the Suez and Falkland Crises (1996). She was the first woman to head a university in Scotland.