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Reception for Acting Dean of the Haas School  Dr. Richard Lyons

Dr. Richard K. Lyons, the Haas Business School’s acting Dean, visited Tokyo as the first top leader of Haas who recorded footprints in Japan since 2001.

He replaced Dean Tom Campbell who went on leave to serve as director of finance for the state of California, starting December 1, 2004.  He joined the Haas School faculty in 1993. Among academic peers, Dr.Lyons is best known for his seminal work in international finance and foreign exchange. His book, The Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rates, published by MIT Press in 2001, focuses on the economics of financial information and how conceptual frameworks within a field called microstructure finance help to clarify the types of information most relevant to exchange rates.

He was awarded the Haas School’s Teacher-of-the-Year Award six times by his students.　Dr.Lyons was a faculty member at ColumbiaUniversity’s business school from 1987 to 1993.

Dr.Lyons was with his wife, Jennifer, and Directors Larry Lollar and Kristen Williams from the office of Alumni relations to travel through Asia to reinforce ties with alums of this region, and the reception took place in the fabulous residence of Daniel Kreps, MBA’79, and Nancy Starr, MBA’94, thanks to the generosity of the couple who has lived in Japan for a couple of times.

Some forty people gathered to welcome dean Lyons and the feast was carried over to the Haas Tokyo Chapter’s Bar of the Month
at “Infocurious” nearby. CAAJ Directors, Kazuo Ninomiya, Michio Sugawara, Takeshi Konishi, and Toru Ishida, joined Akito Yamazaki, President of the Tokyo chapter of Haas Alumni Association to welcome Dr. Lyons and his team.

(Reported by Akito Yamazaki, MBA 1982)


Snapshots at the reception party