Diane Coyle

Diane Coyle is an economist with extensive links and memberships across the Neo-Liberal sphere. She has written numerous books and articles. Her most recent collaboration was as co-editor with ex Scottish executive Minister Wendy Alexander and her husband Brian Ashcroft who is the director of the Fraser Allander Institute. She also wrote a book called Sex Drugs and Economics, its aim being, apparently, to demonstrate how economics can be fun!

She is also on the Executive Committee of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Also a Member of Council of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. She is an Advisory board member, ING Direct UK. She is a Member of the Royal Economic Society, the American Economic Association and the Society of Business Economists. She is also a Member of RES Committee on Women in Economics and on the Advisory Panel, Centre for Public Policy for Regions, University of Glasgow/University of Strathclyde and finally she is an Advisory board member of Britain in Europe.