!!!Melissa Leach
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__Present and Previous Positions__
*June 2024 - present Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative CCI
* April 2014 - 2024 Director, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK
* August 2000 Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK
* Founder and Leader of Knowledge, Technology and Society (KNOTS) team 2005 - 2010
* May 1990 Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK, Leader of Environment Group
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__Honours and Awards__
*2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours CBE for Services to Social Science
*2017 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
*2018 International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD Award for Community Engagement
*2016 ESRC International Impact prize – team award for the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform/Ebola Lessons for Development initiative
*2015 Honorary Doctorate, University of Antwerp
*2012 European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Ziman Prize for public engagement with science, for STEPS Centre ‘New Manifesto’ initiative
*2006 UK Economic and Social Research Council, major £10m award for STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre
*1998 Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute, for best book in African Anthropology, for ‘Misreading the African Landscape’
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Leach_Melissa/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Leach_Melissa/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Leach_Melissa/Highlight]
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