The Dean
Sir Andrew Likierman is Dean of London Business School. He is also a non-executive Director of Barclays Bank plc and the non-executive Chairman of the National Audit Office.
Since joining the School he has been involved in many aspects of the School's work, including founder director of the Executive MBA programme, leading the Accounting subject area and a period as Acting Dean. He has lectured to a wide range of degree and executive programmes and has been working on how organisations can improve their choice and use of performance measures.
Andrew has spent two periods away from London Business School. In the first, he was a member of the Cabinet Office Central Policy Review Staff (the 'Think Tank'). He recently returned from the second, when he was one of the Managing Directors of the UK Treasury and Head of the UK Government Accountancy Service.
Among his other previous posts, he ran a textile plant in Germany and was Managing Director of the overseas division of Qualitex Ltd. He also started and then sold his own business selling business books. He has been non-executive Chairman of the Economists' Bookshops Group, of the market research firm MORI Ltd and of Applied Intellectual Capital plc. In the public sector, he has been a non-executive Director of the Bank of England and Deputy-Chairman of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
In his professional capacity, Andrew is a past President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He has also been a member of a number of official inquiries, including the 'Cadbury Committee' on corporate governance, and he chaired a government inquiry into professional liability. In 2006, he was a member of the Steering Committee on governance and oversight of the United Nations.
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