Professor Annette Richards has been elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea after her nomination earlier this year and a rigorous peer review of her work that recognized her "outstanding achievements as a scholar." The Academia Europaea is the only continent-wide Academy with individual membership from Council of Europe states and from other nations across the world. Encouraging the highest possible standards in scholarship, research, and education, the Academy promotes a better understanding of the benefits of knowledge and learning, and of scientific and scholarly issues which affect society, its quality of life, and its standards of living.
