Linda was a guest speaker for one of the discussions we convened but she does not work at Cumberland Lodge. We cannot share guest speakers' contact details and it is not always possible for us to pass on contact enquiries.
Professor Linda Yueh is an economist, broadcaster and writer. She is a Fellow of Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is also a Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science's foreign policy centre, and Associate Fellow (Global Economy and Finance Department and US and the Americas Programme) at Chatham House. She is Chair of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission. She was Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University.
Linda is also a TV and radio presenter, including for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, as well as having fronted BBC TV series such as The New Middle Class, Next Billionaires, and Working Lives.
Linda is Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and Trustee of the Coutts Foundation and Malaria No More UK. She is a Non-Executive Director of the following publicly listed companies on the London Stock Exchange: Rentokil Initial, a FTSE 100 company, Fidelity China Special Situations PLC, a FTSE 250 investment trust, and Chair of Baillie Gifford's The Schiehallion Fund, listed on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market. She serves on the Advisory Board of LSE IDEAS and on the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), both at the London School of Economics. She is also a Fellow (FRSA) of the Royal Society of Arts.
Linda is a widely published author and Editor of the Routledge Economic Growth and Development book series. Her latest book, The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today is published by Viking/ Penguin Random House (The Times's 'Best Business Books of the Year') and What Would the Great Economists Do? How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems (one of ewsweek's 'Best Books of the Year') published by Picador/ Macmillan in the US. Linda is represented by Janklow & Nesbit.
Linda Yueh was Chief Business Correspondent for BBC News and presenter of Talking Business with Linda Yueh for BBC World TV and the BBC News Channel based in Singapore. She was previously Economics Editor and anchor at Bloomberg TV in London, and an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.
Linda has advised the World Bank, the European Commission, the Asian Development Bank and the World Economic Forum in Davos, amongst others. She was a Non-Executive Director of the LSE-listed companies: JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust and Baillie Gifford's Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. She was also previously Co-Chair of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA) of London First; Board Member of London & Partners; Advisory Board Member of The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF); advisor to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC); and Advisory Board member of the Huxley Summit 2019.