Lucie Cluver

Started as a child protection social worker in South Africa’s AIDS epidemic. Awarded University of Oxford’s youngest ever female full Professorship in 2015, and Professor at University of Cape Town. €37 million raised as PI since doctorate in 2008, all for policy-focused child research with African partners. Won EU Horizon 2020 Impact Award 2019, ESRC Outstanding International Impact Prize 2017 and Leverhulme Prize 2015, all for policy impact in Africa. Technical advisor to major initiatives such as PEPFAR, UNICEF, UNAIDS, the WHO. 170 publications including the Lancet, Nature. H-index: 46.