Sir Timothy Patrick Lankester, KCB (born 15 April 1942),[1] is a former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England, and the first economic private secretary to Margaret Thatcher.
Robin Prior Archibald Lankester and Jean Dorothy Gilliat.
After undertaking Voluntary Service Overseas in British Honduras (1960–61), he went up to St John's College, Cambridge (BA Economics, MA, Honorary Fellow), before completing an MA at Yale University.
He was Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London from 1996 until 2000[6] and made an Honorary Fellow in 2002.
[1] Lankester is Chairman of the Council of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine[8] and a member of the joint advisory board of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.