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Diane Coyle runs Enlightenment Economics.

Diane is Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge in addition to her role at Enlightenment Economics. Diane is a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics and has held a number of public service roles including Member of the Natural Capital Committee, Vice-Chair of the BBC Trust until April 2015, a member of the Migration Advisory Committee from 2007-2012, and a member of the Competition Commission from 2001-2009. She specialises in the economics of new technologies and globalisation, particularly measurement of the digital economy and competition in digital markets.

She is the author of numerous books, including the forthcoming The Measure of Progress, Cogs and Monsters (2021), Markets State and People: Economics for Public Policy (2020), GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History (2014), The Economics of Enough (2011) and The Soulful Science (2007), Sex, Drugs and Economics (2002), Paradoxes of Prosperity (2001), Governing the World Economy (2000) and The Weightless World (1997). She has also published numerous book chapters, reports and journal articles, and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and Project Syndicate.

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 from Harvard.

Diane was awarded the DBE in June 2023.

Enlightenment Economics Affiliate Emily Dixon is an experienced mixed methods researcher, and has worked on projects across the public sector. Recently, she has led research projects into the spread of potentially harmful narratives across social media platforms, and previously contributed to reports on the experiences of civil servants for a project published by the think tank Reform. Emily has worked with global organisations and multinational think tanks, especially focusing on security threats, both material and emerging. She particularly enjoys getting to grips with complex issues and translating them into actionable steps for a range of audiences. 

Emily has worked as an analyst and researcher for Anaraa Consulting on a range of projects, with a focus on security and geopolitics. She led a significant OSINT research project on the growing threat of complex extremist beliefs online. She has a 1st class degree in Politics from Durham University and an MSc in Gender and International Relations from the University of Bristol. She is an Arabic (Egyptian dialect) speaker.