Linda Yueh

Linda Yueh is Adjunct Professor of Economics at the London Business School and Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. She was Visiting Professor at the IDEAS research centre, the foreign policy research centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. She serves on the Advisory Board of LSE IDEAS and on the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE. 

She is a Non-Executive Director of three FTSE 100 companies as well as the Chair of an investment company. She is also Executive Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and a Trustee of the Fidelity UK and International Foundations. She was Co-Chair of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA) and a Board member of London & Partners – the official promotion agency for London. She was a member of the Independent Review Panel on Ring-Fencing and Proprietary Trading of the UK Treasury and an Adviser to the UK Board of Trade. She has been an advisor to the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, World Economic Forum at Davos, and the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), among others.

Dr Yueh has published widely and is the author of a dozen books, including: The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them, The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today, What Would the Great Economists Do? How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today’s Biggest Problems (US edition of The Great Economists), China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower, and Enterprising China: Business, Economic, and Legal Development since 1979. Her textbook, Macroeconomics, co-authored with Graeme Chamberlin, is a recommended text of the UK Government Economic Service. She is also the Editor of the Routledge Economic Growth and Development book series.