Tim Lankester

Who is Tim Lankester?

Sir Tim Lankester, KCB was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England

Tim Lankester was born in 1942 and educated at Monkton Combe School.

After Voluntary Service Overseas in British Honduras, he went up to St John's College, Cambridge, before completing an MA at Yale University.

He worked for the World Bank, first in Washington, D.C., then in New Delhi. From 1973 until 1995, he worked in the British Civil Service. He was Permanent Secretary at the Overseas Development Administration from 1989 until 1994. He left the British Civil Service after a brief spell in the Department for Education.

Sir Tim Lankester sits on the board of the Aga Khan Foundation and the MBI Al Jaber Foundation in the United Kingdom.

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 and made an Honorary Fellow in 2002.

He became President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2001 and retired in 2010.

Sir Tim is Chairman of the Council of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of the joint advisory board of the Georgetown University School of Foreign in Qatar.