UK: LSE criticised for links with Gaddafi regime

04 December 2011

Britain's London School of Economics has been heavily criticised for a "chapter of failures" in its links with the former Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya, reports Stuart Hughes for BBC News. A report by former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, says mistakes and errors of judgement damaged the LSE's reputation.

Former LSE director, Sir Howard Davies, resigned in March over a £1.5 million (US$2.3 million) gift from a foundation led by Gaddafi's son Saif, a former student. The LSE said it accepted all of Lord Woolf's recommendations.

The institution's centre for global governance had received £300,000 of the donation from the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation when Lord Woolf was appointed to head the independent external inquiry in March 2011. The LSE's commercial arm had also secured a contract worth £2.2 million to train Libyan civil servants.
Full report on the BBC site

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