Princess Louise de Merode (née Leakey, born 21 March 1972) is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist.
[2] Leakey earned her International Baccalaureate from United World College of the Atlantic and a Bachelor of Science degree in geology and biology from the University of Bristol.
In 1993, Leakey joined her mother as a co-leader of paleontological expeditions in northern Kenya.
The Koobi Fora research project has been the main program behind some of the most notable hominid fossil discoveries of the past two decades, the most recent being Kenyanthropus platyops.
[4] In 2003, Leakey married Prince Emmanuel de Merode, a Belgian primatologist.