Richard Kent Lyons (born 1961)[1][2] is an American economist and academic who has been the 12th chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, since July 1, 2024.

Prior to that, he was UC Berkeley’s first chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer from 2020–24 and the dean of its Haas School of Business from 2008–18.

[3][4] He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1993 after earning his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and teaching at Columbia University for six years.

[6] Before joining Haas in 1993, Lyons spent six years on the faculty at Columbia Business School.

Lyons also served as the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs in New York City from 2006–08.