DIANE COYLE (OBE) former economist at the U.K Treasury, European Editor of Investors Chronicle and Economics Editor of The Independent. Presently she is Director of “Enlightenment Economics”, the consultancy company she founded in 2001, specialising in global and technological issues.
In 2000 she won the prestigious Wincott Award for Senior Financial journalists. Educated at Oxford University, where she received a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and at Harvard University, where she was awarded a PhD for her thesis on the behaviour of wages and employment in manufacturing industry.
She specialises in competition analysis and the economics of new technologies and globalisation, including extensive work on the impacts of mobile telephony in developing countries. Recent projects include work for NESTA on the wider conditions for innovation, and a forthcoming study on the spread of the Internet via mobile phones in developing countries, commissioned by Vodafone.
Diane is passionate in her desire to encourage widespread understanding of economic issues and how economic trends will have an impact on businesses and individuals.
The Economics of Enough, How to run the economy as if the future matters is her latest book. The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, Diane Coyle argues, is a reckless disregard for the future--especially in the way the economy is run. How can we achieve the financial growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for our children, our societies, and our planet? How can we realize what Coyle calls "the Economics of Enough"?
A former presenter on BBC Radio 4's Analysis, Diane is on the Research Committee of the Economic and Social Science Research Council; a Member of the Royal Economic Society and American Economic Association; a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and visiting Professor at the University of Manchester's Institute for Political and Economic Governance. On May 1st 2011 Diane was appointed as Vice Chair of the BBC.
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for her services to economics.
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