Richard K. Lyons, the chief learning officer of Goldman Sachs, New York,
was named the 14th dean of the University of
California, Berkeley’s Haas School of
Business, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced today (July 18, 2008).
Lyons holds a professorship at the Haas School and served as acting dean
of the school in 2004/05. He succeeds Tom Campbell, an economist, a
former Stanford Law School professor, and former Congressman, who led
the Haas School since 2002.
As chief learning officer of Goldman Sachs, Lyons´ main responsibility
was directing a part of Goldman Sachs called Pine Street, the group
charged with developing leadership among the firm´s managing directors
and partners. Goldman Sachs is known for attracting and developing
leaders, many of whom have gone on to public service or to run other
firms.
UC Berkeley´s Haas School, the second oldest business school in the
United States and the oldest business school at a US public university,
provides top-ranked business and management programs. It has 2,200
students in six degree programs and more than 35,000 alumni.
As dean, Lyons will oversee the Haas School´s efforts to expand its
faculty to its largest size ever; enhance student services; continue
curriculum improvements; build the endowment; and plan for a new
building.
Among academic peers, Lyons is best known for his pioneering work in
international finance and foreign exchange. His book, The
Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rates, published by MIT Press in
2001, offered new insights on how puzzling exchange rate behavior can be
explained.
Lyons has consulted with the International Monetary Fund, the World
Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank, and Citibank. He has served as a
director for Barclays Global Investors iShares and as chairman of the
board of Matthews Asian Funds. He has held visiting appointments at the
University of Toulouse, France; Stockholm University, Sweden; London
School of Economics, UK; Foundation for Advanced Information and
Research, Japan; and the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
Lyons graduated with highest honors from the undergraduate business
program at UC Berkeley in 1982 and joined the Haas School faculty in
1993. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1987.
For more information and a downloadable photo of Dean Rich Lyons, go to http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/haas/dean/.
For UC Berkeley´s Haas School of Business
Ute Frey, 510-642-0342
frey@haas.berkeley.edu
