Enlightenment Economics is a consultancy specialising in global and technological issues.

Our principal areas of expertise are:

• Economic and social impacts of new technologies
• Globalisation, trade and migration
• Corporate governance and institutional reform
• European integration

Clients include major global corporations and financial institutions, international agencies and voluntary sector organisations. We address the large-scale, long-term issues facing businesses, governments and individuals. Amongst our recent work has been part of NESTA's Innovation Index. Enlightenment Economics also co-wrote a recent Vodafone Foundation/United Nations Foundation report on the use of new technologies and social networking in disasters and emergencies.

Diane Coyle chairs the advisory panel of the Vodafone Socio-Economic Impact of Mobiles research programme. Its first two reports were on mobiles in Africa and healthcare. The third report (with Nokia and NSN), on mobile transactions in developing countries was published in 2007. The most recent looked at mobiles in India, and was published in January 2009. The next report, in partnership with the Wordwide Web Foundation, will be on mobile internet and is due in late 2010.

About Enlightenment Economics

The consultancy is headed by Diane Coyle, OBE.

Her most recent book The Soulful Science is published by Princeton University Press. Read the FT's review, and an article in the New York Times.

She is a member of the BBC Trust and also the independent review of higher education funding and the Migration Advisory Committee. She is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Political and Economic Governance, University of Manchester

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