Londa Schiebinger

Londa Schiebinger ( SHEE-bing-ər; born May 13, 1952) is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. She is the founding director of Stanford's Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment project. Schiebinger is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received honorary doctorates from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2013), Lund University (2017), and Universitat de València (2018). She was the first woman in the field of history to win the Humboldt Research Award in 1998.

Schiebinger has analyzed what she calls the three “fixes”: "Fix the Numbers of Women" focuses on increasing the underrepresented groups participating in science and engineering; "Fix the Institutions" promotes structural change for equity in research organizations; and "Fix the Knowledge" (or "gendered innovations") integrates sex, gender, and intersectional analysis into research design. As a result of this work, she was recruited to direct Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research, a post she held from 2004 to 2010. In 2010 and 2014, she presented the keynote address and wrote the conceptual background paper for the United Nations' Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science, and Technology. Again in 2022, she prepared the background paper for the United Nations 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women's priority theme, about using technology to achieve gender equity and female empowerment.

In 2013, she presented the Gendered Innovations project at the European Parliament. Gendered Innovations was also presented to the South Korean National Assembly in 2014. In 2015, Schiebinger addressed 600 participants from 40 countries on Gendered Innovations at the Gender Summit 6—Asia Pacific. Her work was presented in a Palace Symposium for the King and Queen of the Netherlands at the Royal Palace of Amsterdam in 2017. In 2018–2020, she led a European Commission Expert Group to produce the policy review Gendered Innovations 2: How Inclusive Analysis Contributes to Research and Innovation.

Schiebinger's work is interdisciplinary. In recognition of her creative work across academic fields of research, she was awarded the Interdisciplinary Leadership Award from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2010, the Linda Pollin Women's Heart Health Leadership Award from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 2015, the Impact of Gender/Sex on Innovation and Novel Technologies Pioneer Award in 2016, and the American Medical Women's Association President's Recognition Award in 2017. She has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (1999–2000) and at the Stanford Humanities Center (2010–2011, 2017–2018, 2022–2023). She served as an advisor to the Berlin University Alliance from 2022 to 2023.