HONG KONG, Nov. 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- London Business School is
delighted to announce that Robin Buchanan is to be its new Dean. Buchanan is
currently the Senior Partner in the UK of Bain & Company Inc., the global
business consultancy. He will bring to the School over 30 years' experience
of providing advice on strategy, organisation, operations and acquisitions to
international business clients. Buchanan was elected Managing Partner of Bain
in the UK in 1990, and became Senior Partner in 1996.
Buchanan will be the seventh Dean in the School's 42-year history. He
succeeds Laura Tyson who will be returning to the University of California at
Berkeley as Professor of Business Administration and Economics at the Haas
School of Business.
The Chairman of London Business School's Governing Body, Sir John Ritblat
commented: "We are fortunate to have attracted someone of Robin Buchanan's
calibre, and are delighted that he has agreed to join us. Whilst London
Business School is indeed well-placed on the global stage, the commercial
perspective that Robin will bring to bear will be invaluable at this point in
the School's life. He is recognised by cutting-edge businesses for his
thought-leadership around corporate strategy and board effectiveness. His
leadership style is results driven, client-focussed, high-energy and team-
orientated.
I know he is looking forward to building on our efforts to recruit the
best faculty, deliver the finest degree and executive programmes and
strengthen the School's financial firepower to achieve its aims. His record
in the commercial world, in particular his skills in nurturing relationships
with a wide range of stakeholders, will ensure that the School becomes even
more powerful at meeting the needs of both students and businesses."
Buchanan said of his appointment: "London Business School is an
outstanding asset, not only to this city and this country, but also to
businesses around the globe. They look to London Business School to produce
leaders with the knowledge, skills and attributes to propel them to success.
London Business School has built an extraordinary reputation, standing
for the very best in business education. It attracts the finest faculty and
students from all over the world. Working alongside many of its highly
intelligent, creative, ambitious graduates, I have been hugely impressed with
the quality of London Business School alumni. I am privileged to have been
asked to take on this role.
London Business School is determined to be the pre-eminent global
business school providing students and businesses with the capabilities to
succeed in an increasingly competitive marketplace. That requirement also
demands that the School continues to produce rigorous and innovative research
that is of essential value to executives and their businesses. My priority
will be to ensure that London Business School delivers on those promises."
Outgoing Dean, Laura Tyson added: "I am proud of what we have achieved at
London Business School over the past five years. We have established a very
firm foundation for future growth. I am delighted that Robin has been chosen
as my successor. He has the talent and experience required to take the
School to the next level. I wish him, and the entire School community, a
brilliant future."
Buchanan will commence his appointment no later than 1 July 2007.
Following Laura Tyson's departure in December 2006, Professor Sir Andrew
Likierman will assume the position of Acting Dean. Sir Andrew is Professor
of Management Practice in Accounting. His previous roles have included
Managing Director, Government Financial Management Directorate and Head of
the Government Accountancy Service, HM Treasury. Sir Andrew has recently
been serving on the UN Governance Review Committee. He will start in his
interim role on 1 January 2007 until he hands over to Buchanan.
Notes for Editors
London Business School's Vision is to be the pre-eminent global business
school, nurturing talent and advancing knowledge in a multi-national,
multicultural environment. Founded in 1965, the School graduated over 800
MBAs, Executive MBAs, Masters in Finance, Sloan Fellows and PhDs from over 70
countries last year. The School's executive education department serves over
6,000 executives on its programmes every year. London Business School is
based in the most accessible and international city in the world and is one
of only two UK business schools to have twice been awarded the highest
research rating of five-star (5*), by the Higher Education Funding Council
for England (HEFCE), confirming the School as a centre of world-class
research in business and management. http://www.london.edu .
Bain & Company is a leading global business consulting firm, serves
clients on issues of strategy, operations, technology, organization and
mergers and acquisitions. The firm was founded in 1973 on the principle that
Bain consultants must measure their success by their clients' financial
results. Bain clients have out performed the stock market 4 to 1. With
offices in all major cities, Bain has worked with over 3,300 major
multinational, private equity and other corporations across every economic
sector. For more information visit: http://www.bain.com .
Short biography of Robin Buchanan
Robin Buchanan joined Bain & Company, the global business consultancy, in
1982. He was elected as Managing Partner of the UK business in 1990. He
became the Senior Partner in the UK in 1996. During that period he was
elected as a member of its Management Committee, Compensation Committee and
chairman of its Nominating Committee to the Board of Directors. He has
headed its worldwide Acquisitions & Alliances practice and the London
Organisational Enhancement and Change Management practice. He has spoken at
numerous conferences, mostly on strategy, customer management, acquisitions
and the management of change. He has written or been quoted in over 80
articles frequently on the role of the Board, customer management and
acquisitions & alliances.
From 1979-82 Mr Buchanan worked for American Express International
Banking Corporation and prior to that worked with accounting firm Mann Judd
Landau (now Deloitte & Touche).
He is a director of Liberty International Holdings (1997 to date) where
he chairs the Remuneration Committee and sits on the Audit and Nominations
Committees. Since 2003 he has been a director of Shire plc and sits on its
Remuneration Committee. He sits on the Professional Standards Advisory Board
of the Institute of Directors and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.
Mr Buchanan was awarded a Masters of Business Administration with High
Distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School. He is a Fellow of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.
(Photo of Mr Buchanan:
http://www.london.edu/assets/images/Irregularsizes/100Robin-Buchanan.jpg )
