Diane Coyle, Fellow

Diane Coyle runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics. She is a BBC Trustee and member of the Migration Advisory Committee and the Independent Review of Higher Education, and was for eight years a member of the Competition Commission (until September 2009). She is also a visiting professor at the University of Manchester. 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 on the wider conditions for innovation, on the effects of mobiles in India, and (for the United Nations Foundation) on the uses of new technologies in emergencies and conflicts. Diane is also a member of the advisory board of ING Direct UK and of the stakeholder advisory panel of EDF Energy. She is the author of several books, including 'The Soulful Science' (Princeton University Press 2007), 'Sex, Drugs and Economics' (2002, Texere), 'Paradoxes of Prosperity' (2001, Texere), 'Governing the World Economy' (2000, Polity) and 'The Weightless World' (1997, Capstone/MIT Press), 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. She is currently working on a new book to be published by Princeton University Press in 2010. She 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 OBE in January 2009.