Andrew Likierman

Andrew was educated at the University of Vienna and Balliol College Oxford. In addition to his London Business School academic post he has served in a number of administrative roles, including as Dean from 2009 to 2017. His current research is on human judgment and he has published on judgment in leadership, on the Board, in professions and in managing during Covid. His book ‘Judgement at Work: Making Better Choices’ was published in January 2025. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the London Business School and from three other universities.

Andrew’s career has included work in the public and private sectors, as well as in professional life.

In the public sector he was a member of the Cabinet Office Central Policy Review Staff and spent a 10-year period as one of the Managing Directors of the UK Treasury and Head of the UK Government Accountancy Service. In this period he led the project which changed the basis of government planning, control and reporting from cash to accruals. He has also been a Non-executive Chairman of the National Audit Office, Deputy Chairman of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and a Director of the Bank of England. He has won the Sunday Times award for Non-Executive Director of the year in the public/not for profit sector.

In the private sector Andrew worked as a management accountant with Tootal Ltd, ran a textile plant in Germany and was Managing Director of the overseas division of Qualitex Ltd, with subsidiaries in France, the US and Malta. He has been the non-executive Chairman of the market research firm MORI Ltd, the Economists’ Bookshop Group, the California-based electro-technology company Applied Intellectual Capital plc and a non-executive Director of Barclays Bank plc, the listed UK insurance company Beazley plc, Australian listed company Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals and a national independent non-executive director of Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd. He is currently a non-executive director of start-up bank, Monument.

In his professional capacity, Andrew has advised the House of Commons Treasury, Employment, Transport and Social Services Select Committees. He is a past President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (who awarded him their Gold Medal) and was a member of the Financial Reporting Council. He has been a member of a number of official inquiries, including North Sea oil costs, international comparisons of telecoms and posts, and accounting for changing prices. He chaired a government study on professional liability. In the field of corporate governance, he was a member of the “Cadbury Committee” on UK corporate governance, and of the steering committee set up by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the governance of the United Nations.

He lives in London and has two children and five grandchildren.