Sir Tim Lankester

Sir Tim Lankester, KCB (born 15 April 1942) was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England

Lankester was 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.

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.

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