Sir Sydney Caine KCMG (1902-1990) was an educator and economist. He was appointed the Director of the LSE between 1957 and 1967. He was an alumnus of the LSE and before his appointment as Director of the school he was a well known economist who had acted as a Consultant for the World Bank for a period of time and had worked as a diplomat being appointed Minister at the British Embassy in Washington, USA. Between 1952 and 1957 he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya.
Between 1963 and 1970 he was the Chairman of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning.
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| Preceded by Alexander Carr-Saunders |
Director of the London School of Economics 1957 – 1967 |
Succeeded by Walter Adams |