Dr Yueh becomes a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society
RES is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Yueh and other distinguished figures as Founding Fellows
London Business School's Dr Linda Yueh has become a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society (RES).
Dr Yueh joins 57 other distinguished figures from academia, the public and private sectors, and those working in schools who are now Founding Fellows of the RES.
The RES is the pre-eminent economics association in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1890, the RES is a registered charity and received a Royal Charter in 1902. The 4,000 members of the RES are located in more than 70 countries, with approximately half of these in the UK. Thousands more engage with us every year via our group and institutional membership programmes and through our journals, events, and other activities.
With its history rooted in academia, the RES continues to advance research through the body's peer-reviewed journals –The Economic Journal and The Econometrics Journal – the RES annual conference, and the society's support for doctoral students. Through its Annual Public Lecture and other events, online materials, and partnerships, the RES works to improve the public’s understanding of economics.
The RES made the following statement, celebrating the society's new fellows: "We congratulate our new Fellows and thank all those who submitted applications. We also extend our thanks to the judging panel for their hard work: Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Professor Sir Charles Bean, Professor Parama Chaudhury, Anna Leach and Professor Anna Vignoles."
RES President Professor Sir Chris Pissarides, who chaired the judging panel, said:
“The panel was impressed by the depth and breadth of the applications it considered, with representation from academia, the public and private sectors and those working in schools. Through their applications our new Fellows demonstrated the impact they have made not just in their roles, but to the wider economics profession. We congratulate them and look forward to working with them to advance the RES vision: that economics be understood, advanced and applied for the good of society and the world around us.”
Dr Linda Yueh CBE FREcon FRSA is a Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is an Associate Fellow (U.S. and the Americas Programme) at Chatham House.
She was appointed CBE for Services to Economics in The King's New Year's Honours List 2023. She is a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society (FREcon) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
A widely published author who has written/edited 11 books. Dr Yueh's latest book, The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them (Penguin Business), was selected by the Financial Times as The Best New Books in Economics and by i newspaper as The Best New Books in May 2023. Her previous book, The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today (Viking/Penguin Random House), was selected as The Times's Best Business Books of the Year. The U.S. edition, What Would the Great Economists Do? How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems (Picador/ Macmillan), was Newsweek's Best Books of the Year.
She is a judge of The Nine Dot Prize, a book prize that rewards original thinking in response to contemporary societal issues.
Dr Yueh was a Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. She is a Member of the UK Soft Power Council, co-chaired by the Foreign Secretary and the Culture Secretary. She was Chair of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission and served on the Independent Review Panel on Ring-Fencing and Proprietary Trading of the UK Treasury as well as an Adviser to the UK Board of Trade.
She has advised the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, World Economic Forum in Davos, among others. She was a Non-Executive Director of the publicly listed companies on the LSE: Senior Independent Director of Fidelity China Special Situations plc, Baillie Gifford's Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc and JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income plc. She was previously Co-Chair of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA) of London First; Board Member of London & Partners; Advisory Board Member of The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF); Adviser to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC); Trustee of the Coutts Foundation, where she was Chair of the Audit, Finance and Investment Committee; Trustee of Malaria No More UK; Trustee of the Magna Carta Trust; and Advisory Board member of the British Science Association's For Thought Summit 2019. Previously, she was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
