Linda Yi-Chuang Yueh is a Taiwanese-born British-American economist, lawyer, broadcaster, and author. Yueh is an

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of economics at

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, and a

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in economics at

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. She was also a visiting professor at

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and associated with both the Centre for Economic Performance and IDEAS research centres at the

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(LSE). She is a TV and radio presenter, including for

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programmes such as Radio 4 Analysis, Business Daily on

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, and Radio 4 Today programme. From 2013 to 2015, she was Chief Business Correspondent and a Contributing Editor for

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when she hosted ''Talking Business with Linda Yueh'', as well as former Economics Editor at

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Early life and education

Yueh was born to

Taiwanese American Taiwanese Americans (traditional Chinese, Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人; pinyin: ''Táiwān yì měiguó rén''; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ''Tâi-Bí-jîn'') are Americans of Taiwanese people, Taiwanese ancestry, including American-born descendants of migrant ...

immigrant parents in

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, Taiwan. She emigrated with her family to the United States around 1982 when she was five years old. After graduating from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

with a

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(B.A.) degree, Yueh earned a

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(M.P.P.) from

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, a

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(J.D.) from the

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in 1998, and a

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and then a D.Phil. in economics from the

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as a member of

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. Her 2001 doctoral dissertation at Oxford was titled, "Gender, Discrimination and Inequality in China: Some Economic Aspects", and was supervised by economist John Knight.

Career

Yueh has been a

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at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and a resident in New York City, Beijing, and Hong Kong. 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. 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

(LSE). She is also the Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and Malaria No More UK. In September 2020, Yueh was named an advisor to the British

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. She was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to economics. She was made a

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of the

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in May 2025.

International activities

Yueh has been a consultant to the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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Personal life

She has dual British and American citizenship.

Books

* ''The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today''. Viking. /''What Would the Great Economists Do? How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems''.

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. * ''China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower''.

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. * ''The Economy of China''. Edward Elgar Publishing. * ''China and Globalisation: Critical Concepts in Globalisation''.

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. (editor). * ''Enterprising China: Business, Economic, and Legal Developments since 1979''.

. * ''The Law and Economics of Globalisation''.

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. (editor). * ''Macroeconomics''.

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. (co-author). * ''The Future of Asian Trade and Growth: Economic Development with the Emergence of China''. Routledge. (editor). * ''Globalisation and Economic Growth in China''. Routledge. (co-editor).

References

External links

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LSE profile
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