Richard Lyons (business professor)

Richard K. Lyons
Lyons in 2008
12th Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2024
Preceded by	Carol T. Christ
Personal details
Born	(1961-02-10) February 10, 1961 (age 63) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)

Richard Kent Lyons (born 1961) is an American economist and academic, serving as the Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley. He was the 14th Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, until 2018.^[1] In 2020, he became UC Berkeley's first Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer. ^[2]