Diane Coyle
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Coyle in 2009
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1961 (age 55–56) Bury, Lancashire, England |
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| Residence | West Ealing, London | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
| Alma mater | Brasenose College, Oxford | ||
| Occupation | Vice-chairman, BBC Trust | ||
| Salary | £77,005 (for her part time BBC role) | ||
| Spouse(s) | Rory Cellan-Jones | ||
| Children | 2 sons | ||
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Diane Coyle, OBE (born February 1961), is an economist and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She was Vice-Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and was a member of the UK Competition Commission until its termination in April 2014. She is a part-time professor at the University of Manchester.
Coyle was born in Bury, Lancashire, and attended Bury Grammar School for Girls, where a teacher engaged her "very sceptical and mathematical" mind with the logical way of thinking required in economics. She did her undergraduate studies at Brasenose College, Oxford, reading philosophy, politics, and economics, before gaining an MA and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, graduating in 1985, her thesis was titled The dynamic behaviour of employment (wages, contracts, productivity, business cycle).
Coyle was an economist at the UK Treasury from 1985 to 1986, and later became the European Editor of Investors Chronicle between 1993 and 2001 and economics editor of The Independent.
She has written a series of books focused on educating people about different aspects of economics. She has said that her first book, The Weightless World (1997), was a contribution to the creation of a radical centre. Another book explores concepts of "enoughness" and sustainability.
Coyle is managing director of Enlightenment Economics, an economic consultancy to large corporate clients and international organisations, specialising in new technologies and globalisation. Coyle is a Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester's Institute for Political and Economic Governance. She is employed by EDF Energy on its stakeholder advisory panel, on which her former BBC Trust colleague Chris Patten also sits. Coyle is also a member of the UK Border Agency's Migration Advisory Committee.
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