Michael Branch (academic)

Michael Arthur Branch, CMG (born 24 March 1940) is a British linguist and academic administrator. He completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and doctorate (PhD, 1967) at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London; he joined the staff there as a lecturer after completing his doctorate and became a Reader in Finnish in 1977. He became the School's Director in 1980, serving until 2001, and was also a Professor of Finnish at the University of London from 1986 until that time. In 2000, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). He is also a Commander of the Finnish Order of the Lion (1980), the Polish Order of Merit (1992) and the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (2000); he is an Officer of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (2002).^[1]

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