Economist and author Diane Coyle runs the consultancy
Enlightenment Economics. She is Vice Chair of the BBC
Trust. She is a member of the Migration Advisory Committee,
was a member of the Browne Review of higher education
funding, and was on the Competition Commission for eight
years. Diane is also a visiting professor at the University
of Manchester.
She specialises in competition policy, network
markets, the economics of new technologies and
globalisation, including extensive work on the impacts of
mobile telephony in developing countries.
On 27 February 2012, Diane will be giving the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation Lecture
at the University of York, on ‘Inequality and
Institutional Reform’. On 18-19 May 2012, she will be
giving the
Tanner Lectures at Brasenose
College, Oxford, on ‘The Public Responsibilities of
the Economist’.
Diane is the author of several bestselling books. The
latest is
The Economics of Enough (March 2011,
Princeton University Press), the previous one
The
Soulful Science (Princeton University Press 2007), Her
first book was
The Weightless World (1996), one of
the very first to identify the impact of new technologies
on the economy and society. Others include
Sex, Drugs
and Economics (2002,
Paradoxes of
Prosperity (2001), and
Governing the World
Economy (2000), all translated into many languages.
She has also published numerous book chapters, reports and
articles, and was formerly a regular presenter on BBC Radio
4's
Analysis.
Diane was previously Economics Editor of The
Independent and before that worked at the Treasury and in
the private sector as an economist. She has a PhD in
economics from Harvard.
Diane was awarded an OBE in January 2009.
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