- Tim Lankester
Sir Tim Lankester, KCB (born 1942) is President of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford .Tim Lankester was born in 1942 and educated at
Monkton Combe School .After
Voluntary Service Overseas inBritish Honduras (1960-61), he went up toSt John's College, Cambridge (BA Economics, MA, Honorary Fellow), before completing an MA atYale University .He worked for the
World Bank , first inWashington, D.C. , then inNew Delhi (1970-73). From 1973 until 1995 he worked in theBritish Civil Service . He wasPermanent Secretary at the Overseas Development Administration from 1989 until 1994. He left theBritish Civil Service after a brief spell in the Department for Education.He was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 1994.
He was Director and Principal of the
School of Oriental and African Studies ,University of London from 1996 until 2000.He became President of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2001.Publications
*Tim Lankester, "Twenty five years of development: a perspective from the Overseas Development Administration" (Discussion paper 228, Norwich: School of Development Studies,
University of East Anglia , 1992)ources and Further Information
* [http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows/president.php Corpus Christi College, Oxford]
* [http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/index.cfm?navid=2583 School of Oriental and African Studies]
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