Dr. Linda Yueh

Linda Yueh is an economist, broadcaster, and writer.

Yueh is a Fellow in 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 an Associate Fellow (Global Economy and Finance Department & the U.S. and the Americas Programme) at Chatham House. Additionally, she is Chair of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission and Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University.

Yueh is an experienced TV and radio presenter, including for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. She has fronted BBC TV series such as "The New Middle Class," "Next Billionaires," and "Working Lives." She has also been the BBC’s Chief Business Correspondent and presenter of "Talking Business with Linda Yueh" for BBC World TV and BBC News Channel based in Singapore. Previously, she served as Economics Editor and anchor at Bloomberg TV in London.

Yueh holds several prestigious positions, including Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and Trustee of the Coutts Foundation and Malaria No More UK. She is a Non-Executive Director of publicly listed companies on the London Stock Exchange, including Rentokil Initial, a FTSE 100 company, Fidelity China Special Situations PLC, a FTSE 250 investment trust, and she is 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 also serves on the Advisory Board of the Huxley Summit 2019. She is a Fellow (FRSA) of the Royal Society of Arts.

Yueh is a widely published author and Editor of the Routledge Economic Growth and Development book series. Her recent publications include "The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today" 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" by Picador/ Macmillan in the U.S. (Newsweek's Best Books of the Year). Previously, she was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.

Yueh has advised international bodies such as the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. She has also been a Non-Executive Director of the LSE-listed companies: JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust and Baillie Gifford's Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, and she has served as Co-Chair of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA) and Board Member of London & Partners. She is an advisor to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and a former Advisory Board Member of The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF).