Rich Lyons
Richard Kent Lyons is an American economist who has been the List of chancellors of the [University of California, Berkeley|12th chancellor] of the University of California, Berkeley since July 2024.
At UC Berkeley, he served as chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer from 2020 to 2024 and as dean of its Haas School of Business from 2008 to 2018. He joined the UC Berkeley business faculty in 1993 after earning a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and teaching at Columbia University for six years.
Lyons was born on February 10, 1961, in Palo Alto, California. He received a Bachelor of Science in business from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity there. He then received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 under the supervision of Rudiger Dornbusch. He is married and has two children.
Career
Before joining Haas in 1993, Lyons spent six years on the faculty at Columbia Business School. In addition to teaching, he has been acting dean, executive associate dean, and dean at Haas School of Business. Lyons also served as the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs in New York City from 2006–08.