The Dean

Robin Buchanan became the seventh Dean of London Business School in September 2007. He was formerly the Senior Partner in the UK of Bain & Company Inc., the global business consultancy, and brings more than 35 years of experience to the School.

Robin spent 25 years at Bain. He was elected Managing Partner of Bain in the UK in 1990, and became the Senior Partner in 1996. 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 Bain's 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 more than 80 articles, frequently on the role of the Board, customer management and acquisitions & alliances.

From 1979 to 1982 Robin worked for American Express International Banking Corporation. Prior to that he worked with accounting firm Mann Judd Landau (now Deloitte & Touche) and also McKinsey & Company. He is a director of Liberty International plc, where he chairs the Remuneration Committee and sits on the Audit and Nominations Committees. He is also a director of Shire plc and sits on its Remuneration Committee. He is a member of the Professional Standards Advisory Board of the Institute of Directors and also of the Trilateral Commission.

Robin was awarded an MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.

He follows former Dean Laura D Tyson, who returned to the University of California at Berkeley as Professor of Business Administration and Economics at the Haas School of Business; and Acting Dean Sir Andrew Likierman.