Bennett Professor of Public Policy and Research Director, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge

Member, CSaP Advisory Council

Dame Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and the Research Director at the Bennett School of Public Policy (formerly the Bennett Institute for Public Policy).

Diane is currently a member of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Council, the New Towns Taskforce, and advises the Competition and Markets Authority. She has served previously in a number of public service roles including as Vice Chair of the BBC Trust, member of the Competition Commission, and of the Natural Capital Committee. Diane was awarded a DBE in 2023 for her contribution to economics and public policy.

Her research focuses on productivity, the digital economy and AI policy, and economic measurement. She has been writing about the effects of digital technologies since her first book, ‘The Weightless World’, in 1997. The underlying motivation for all her work is the question: what does it mean for the economy to improve, and who benefits? Diane’s latest book is ‘The Measure of Progress: Counting what really matters’.