Tim Lankester

Sir Tim Lankester, KCB (born 1942) 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 (1960–61), he went up to St John's College, Cambridge (BA Economics, MA, Honorary Fellow), before completing an MA at Yale University.

He worked for the World Bank, first in Washington, D.C., then in New Delhi (1970–73). 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 also sits on the board of Aga Khan 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.

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

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)

Sources and Further Information

• Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• School of Oriental and African Studies
• Aga Khan Development Network

Academic offices
Preceded by Keith Thomas	President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 2001-2010	Succeeded by Richard Carwardine