Economist and author Diane Coyle runs the consultancy
Enlightenment Economics. She is Vice Chair of the BBC
Trust. She was a member of the Migration Advisory Committee
from 2007-2012, of the Browne Review of higher education
funding, and was on the Competition Commission 2001-2009.
Diane is also a visiting research associate at Oxford
University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the
Environment.
She works on 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 gave the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation Lecture
at the University of York, on ‘Inequality and
Institutional Reform’. On 18-19 May 2012, she
delivered the
Tanner Lectures at Brasenose
College, Oxford, on ‘The Public Responsibilities of
the Economist’.
Diane is the author of several bestselling books including
The Economics of Enough (March 2011, Princeton
University Press) and
The Soulful Science
(Princeton University Press 2007). She is the editor of
What’s The Use of Economics?, a collection of
essays about teaching economics (London Publishing
Partnership 2012).
Her first book was
The Weightless World (1996),
one of the 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 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 had 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.