Linda Yueh

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Linda Yueh
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Yueh in 2017
Born1971 (age 5253)
Education Yale University (BA)
Harvard University (MPP)
New York University (JD)
St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Occupation(s)Broadcaster, author and economist

Linda Yi-Chuang Yueh CBE is a Taiwanese-born British-American economist, broadcaster, and author. She has dual British and American citizenship. [1] Yueh is an adjunct professor of economics at London Business School, [2] and a Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. [3] [4] She was also a visiting professor at Peking University and associated with both the Centre for Economic Performance and IDEAS research centres at the London School of Economics (LSE). [5]

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She is a TV and radio presenter, including for BBC programmes such as Radio 4 Analysis, Business Daily on BBC World Service, and Radio 4 Today programme. [6] [7] From 2013 to 2015, she was Chief Business Correspondent and a Contributing Editor for BBC News when she hosted Talking Business with Linda Yueh, [8] as well as former Economics Editor at Bloomberg Television.

Background

Yueh was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and emigrated to the United States around 1982 when she was five years old. She has a BA from Yale University, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, a JD from New York University School of Law and a D.Phil. in economics and MA from St Edmund Hall, Oxford. [2]

Career

Yueh has been a corporate lawyer at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and a resident in New York City, Beijing, and Hong Kong. [6]

Yueh was previously a non-executive director of two FTSE-listed companies, a board member of London & Partners, the official promotion agency of London, and an adviser to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). Yueh is currently a non-executive director at Rentokil Initial; she has held this role since November 2017.[ citation needed ]

Yueh is an External Trustee of the Coutts Foundation and also on the advisory board of OMFIF. She serves on the supervisory Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is also the Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and Malaria No More UK. [9]

In September 2020, Yueh was named an advisor to the British Board of Trade. [10]

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to economics. [11]

International activities

Yueh has been a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission, the Asian Development Bank, and the World Economic Forum at Davos. [9]

Academia

Yueh has had several dozen scholarly articles published [12] [ obsolete source ][ self-published source? ][ unreliable source? ] while teaching at Oxford University, London Business School, London School of Economics and Political Science and Peking University where she holds a visiting professorship in economics.

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Faculty Profile, Linda Yueh". London Business School. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  3. "Academic profile – Linda Yueh". Oxford University. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
  4. "China Growth Centre".
  5. "Speakers archive – Linda Yueh". RSA – Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Archived from the original on 1 October 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Correspondents – Linda Yueh". BBC. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  7. "Linda Yueh to make on-air debut on BBC World News on 13 May". BBC. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  8. Yueh, Linda (5 May 2015). "The future of business news". BBC News . Retrieved 22 December 2015.
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