!!!Melissa Leach [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\%%(margin-left:23px;) %% \\ \\ __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 \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __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’ \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Leach_Melissa/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Leach_Melissa/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Leach_Melissa/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Leach_Melissa/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit mleach}] [{ALLOW upload mleach}] [{ALLOW comment All}]