Tim Lankester

{{Short description|British economist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} '''Sir Timothy Patrick Lankester''', KCB (born 15 April 1942<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-4-15.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416061858/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-4-15.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 16 April 2011 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=14 April 2014|date=15 April 2011|quote=Sir Tim Lankester, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 2001–09}}</ref>) is a retired British civil servant, a former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the first economic private secretary to Margaret Thatcher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/News/a/Corpus-Elects-New-President/archive/1/|title=Corpus Christi College Oxford - News & Events|website=ccc.ox.ac.uk|accessdate=17 May 2019|archive-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107022549/http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/News/a/Corpus-Elects-New-President/archive/1/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Moore |first=Charles |date=21 April 2013 |title=Margaret Thatcher: a woman at No 10 with a style all her own |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/10008828/Margaret-Thatcher-a-woman-at-No-10-with-a-style-all-her-own.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

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.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 2237 |ref=Burke |isbn=978-0-9711966-2-9|title-link=Burke's Peerage }}</ref>

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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mbifoundation.com/patron-and-trustees.asp|title=Patron & Trustees - MBI Al Jaber Foundation|website=mbifoundation.com|accessdate=17 May 2019}}</ref> in the UK.

He was Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London from 1996 until 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sir-tim-lankester-appointed-director-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/96025.article|title=Sir Tim Lankester appointed director of the School of Oriental and African Studies|date=10 November 1995|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|accessdate=17 May 2019}}</ref> and made an Honorary Fellow in 2002.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.soasworld.org/document.doc?id=3 |title=Honorary Fellowships |magazine= (SOAS) Alumni Newsletter |date= Winter 2002 |issue=25 |page=1 |accessdate=19 May 2023}}</ref> He became President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2001 and retired in 2009.<ref name=Birth />

Lankester is Chairman of the Council of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine<ref>{{cite web |title=COUNCIL & SUB-COMMITTEES MEMBERSHIP & TRUSTEESHIPS as at 31 January 2013 |url=http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/governance/councilmembertrustees.pdf |url-status=dead |website=London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |accessdate=2013-08-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722154359/http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/governance/councilmembertrustees.pdf |archivedate=22 July 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and a member of the joint advisory board of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mirgani |first=Suzi |title=Sir Tim Lankester on Britain's Foreign Aid |url=http://cirs.georgetown.edu/328988.html |url-status=dead |website=Center for International and Regional Studies |accessdate=2013-08-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723004631/http://cirs.georgetown.edu/328988.html |archivedate=23 July 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> He is also Chair of the Wells Maltings Trust, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fakenhamtimes.co.uk/news/wells-maltings-appoints-new-chair-launch-year-1-5349585|title=Trust overseeing Maltings redevelopment appoints new chair for crucial launch year|first=Steve|last=Shaw|website=Fakenham and Wells Times|date=10 January 2018|accessdate=17 May 2019}}</ref>

==Honours== Lankester was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 1994.<ref name="burke"/>

==Publications== *Lankester, T. (2024). ''Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment''. Bristol University Press. *Lankester, T. (2013). ''The politics and economics of Britain's foreign aid: the Pergau Dam affair''. London, Routledge.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lankester |first=Tim |title=The politics and economics of Britain's foreign aid: the Pergau Dam affair |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-52952-5 |edition=1st |location=London |oclc=767569351}}</ref> *Lankester, T. (2005). International Aid Experience, prospects and the moral case. ''Cultura''. 2, 131-153.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lankester |first=Tim |date=2005 |title=International Aid Experience, prospects and the moral case |url=https://doi.org/10.5840/cultura20052211 |journal=Cultura |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=131–153 |doi=10.5840/cultura20052211 |issn=1584-1057|url-access=subscription |doi-access=free }}</ref> *Lankester, T. (2004). 'Asian drama': the pursuit of modernisation in India and Indonesia. ''Asian Affairs''. 35, 291–304.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lankester |first=Tim |date=2004-11-01 |title='Asian drama': the pursuit of modernization in India and Indonesia |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0306837042000303894 |journal=Asian Affairs |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=291–304 |doi=10.1080/0306837042000303894 |s2cid=21348629 |issn=0306-8374|url-access=subscription }}</ref> *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== {{Reflist}}

==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

==Sources and further information== *[http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows/president.php Corpus Christi College, Oxford] *[http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/lankestert/ School of Oriental and African Studies] *[http://www.akdn.org/ Aga Khan Development Network]

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