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Diane Coyle, OBE (born February 1961), is a freelance economist, and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She is a member of the UK Competition Commission and Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Coyle was born in Bury, Lancashire and attended a grammar school, 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.
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 since written a series of books focused on both educating people about, as well as different aspects of economics. 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 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, with her BBC Trust colleague Chris Patten also on the panel. Coyle is also a member of the UK Border Agency's Migration Advisory Committee.