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British economist
Sir Timothy Patrick Lankester ,
KCB (born 15 April 1942),
[1] is a former
President of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford ,
England , and the first economic private secretary to
Margaret Thatcher .
[2]
[3]
Lankester is the son of Preb. Robin Prior Archibald Lankester and Jean Dorothy Gilliat. He was educated at
Monkton Combe School in
Somerset . After undertaking
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 .
[4]
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
[5] in the UK.
He was Director and Principal of the
School of Oriental and African Studies ,
University of London from 1996 until 2000
[6] and made an Honorary Fellow in 2002.
[7] He became President of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2001 and retired in 2009.
[1]
Lankester is Chairman of the Council of the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
[8] and a member of the joint advisory board of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in
Qatar .
[9] He is also Chair of the Wells Maltings Trust,
Wells-next-the-Sea ,
Norfolk .
[10]
Honours
Lankester was appointed
Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 1994.
[4]
Publications
Lankester, T. (2013). The politics and economics of Britain's foreign aid: the
Pergau Dam affair . London,
Routledge .
[11]
Lankester, T. (2005). International Aid Experience, prospects and the moral case. Cultura . 2, 131-153.
[12]
Lankester, T. (2004). 'Asian drama': the pursuit of modernisation in India and Indonesia.
Asian Affairs . 35, 291-304.
[13]
Lankester, T. (1993). Twenty five years of development: a perspective from the Overseas development administration . Norwich,
University of East Anglia . School of Development Studies.
References
^
a
b
"Birthday's today" . The Telegraph. 15 April 2011. Archived from
the original on 16 April 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2014 . Sir Tim Lankester, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 2001–09
^
"Corpus Christi College Oxford - News & Events" . ccc.ox.ac.uk . Archived from
the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2019 .
^ Moore, Charles (21 April 2013).
"Margaret Thatcher: a woman at No 10 with a style all her own" . The Telegraph .
^
a
b
Mosley, Charles , ed. (2003).
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2237.
ISBN
978-0-9711966-2-9 .
^
"Patron & Trustees - MBI Al Jaber Foundation" . mbifoundation.com . Retrieved 17 May 2019 .
^
"Sir Tim Lankester appointed director of the School of Oriental and African Studies" . Times Higher Education (THE) . 10 November 1995. Retrieved 17 May 2019 .
^
"Honorary Fellowships" . (SOAS) Alumni Newsletter . No. 25. Winter 2002. p. 1. Retrieved 19 May 2023 .
^
"COUNCIL & SUB-COMMITTEES MEMBERSHIP & TRUSTEESHIPS as at 31 January 2013" (PDF) . London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 22 July 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013 .
^ Mirgani, Suzi.
"Sir Tim Lankester on Britain's Foreign Aid" . Center for International and Regional Studies . Archived from
the original on 23 July 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013 .
^ Shaw, Steve (10 January 2018).
"Trust overseeing Maltings redevelopment appoints new chair for crucial launch year" . Fakenham and Wells Times . Retrieved 17 May 2019 .
^ Lankester, Tim (2013).
The politics and economics of Britain's foreign aid : the Pergau Dam affair (1st ed.). London: Routledge.
ISBN
978-0-415-52952-5 .
OCLC
767569351 .
^ Lankester, Tim (2005).
"International Aid Experience, prospects and the moral case" . Cultura . 2 (2): 131–153.
doi :
10.5840/cultura20052211 .
ISSN
1584-1057 .
^ Lankester, Tim (1 November 2004).
" 'Asian drama': the pursuit of modernization in India and Indonesia" . Asian Affairs . 35 (3): 291–304.
doi :
10.1080/0306837042000303894 .
ISSN
0306-8374 .
S2CID
21348629 .
Further reading
Ribbins, Peter, and Brian Sherratt. "Biography in the study of public administration: towards a portrait of a Whitehall mandarin". Journal of Educational Administration and History 48.3 (2016): 243–260. Career of Tim Lankester
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