Richard Lyons | Source | Associate Vice Chancellor at UC Berkeley and first-ever CIEO at University of...

Rich Lyons currently serves as the chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer for UC Berkeley. He is the former dean of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business where he currently holds the William and Janet Cronk Chair in Innovative Leadership. Prior to serving as dean, he was the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs. He received his B.S. in business with highest honors from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT. Before (re)joining Berkeley, Rich served on the faculty at Columbia University for six years. His research and teaching expertise is in international economics and finance, and his top applied interest is the “how and why” of setting strong institutional cultures.