Dr. Linda Yueh

Fellow in Economics, Oxford University, and Adjunct Professor, London Business School, and author of The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today.

Profile

Dr. Yueh was Co-Chair of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA), and sits on the supervisory Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and served on the Advisory Board of The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). She is a Trustee of the Coutts Foundation and the Royal Commonwealth Society. She has advised the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, and World Economic Forum, among many others. She has been a Non-Executive Director of several FTSE companies, an advisor to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), and a Board member of London & Partners, the official promotion agency for London.

She is widely published and is the Editor of the Economic Growth and Development book series at Routledge. Her books include: Macroeconomics (with Graeme Chamberlin), Globalisation and Economic Growth in China (with Yang Yao), The Law and Economics of Globalisation: New Challenges for a World in Flux, The Future of Asian Trade and Growth: Economic Development with the Emergence of China, Enterprising China: Business, Economics anand China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower. Her latest book is The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today (US edition: What Would the Great Economists Do? How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today’s Biggest Problems).