BERKELEY, Calif. - (Business Wire) Richard K. Lyons, the chief learning officer of Goldman Sachs, New York, was named the 14
th 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
