Diane Coyle

Dame
Diane Coyle
DBE FAcSS
Coyle after receiving her OBE insignia in the 2009 New Year Honours list
BornFebruary 1961 (age 63)
Bury, Lancashire, England
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Economist, academic and writer
SpouseRory Cellan-Jones
Children2
Diane Coyle's voice
from the BBC programme Start the Week, 21 May 2012.[1]

Dame Diane Coyle DBE FAcSS (born February 1961) is a British economist. Since March 2018, she has been the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, co-directing the Bennett Institute.[2]

Coyle's early career as an economist was followed by a period in journalism including being economics editor at The Independent from 1993 to 2001. She was professor of economics at University of Manchester from 2014 to 2018. She was vice-chair of the BBC Trust from 2011 to 2016 and a member of the UK Competition Commission from 2001 until 2009.

Coyle has written nine books on economics.

  1. ^ "Diane Coyle". Start the Week. 21 May 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Professor Diane Coyle: Inaugural Bennett Professor of Public Policy". Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge. Retrieved 21 October 2019.