Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) is one of the most influential social anthropologists of the last fifty years. A pioneer of feminist approaches to social anthropology, much of her early work dealt with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea. She has also written extensively about reproductive technologies, kinship, intellectual and cultural property, and regimes of audit and accountability. The recipient of many honorary degrees from universities all over the world, in 2012 she was awarded the British Academy’s Leverhulme Medal for her contribution to knowledge and understanding in the humanities and social sciences. She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009.