LBS Names New Dean

The London Business School has named Robin Buchanan, currently the Senior Partner in the UK for Bain & Company, as its new dean. He will assume his duties at LBS by July 1.

Buchanan will succeed Laura Tyson, who will return to the University of California - Berkeley's Haas School of Business as a Professor of Business Administration and Economics.

In accepting the appointment, Buchanan noted LBS' commitment to excellence and its drive to be the world's preeminent global school of business. "My priority willbe to ensure that London Business School delivers on those promises," he said.

Source: "London Business School Appoints Robin Buchanan as Dean," press release, London Business School (London, UK), November 7, 2006.