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 the Innovation Index being developed by NESTA.

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 report (with Nokia and NSN), on mobile transactions in developing countries, was published in July 2007. The latest looks at productivity growth and impact in urban slums in India, and was published early in 2009. Enlightenment Economics has contributed to a report on the use of mobiles in Lebanon in the summer 2006 conflict and prepared a report for the GSM Association on the use of mobiles in disasters and emergencies.
The consultancy is headed by Diane Coyle, OBE. Her latest book The Soulful Science is published by Princeton University Press. Read the FT's review here, and an article in the New York Times here. Her bestseller Sex, Drugs and Economics is out in paperback. She is a member of the BBC Trust and the Competition Commission, and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Political and Economic Governance, University of Manchester

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