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Diane Coyle
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge | Leading Economist on AI, Productivity & the Digital Economy | Bestselling Author of The Measure of Progress
Professor Dame Diane Coyle is one of the world's leading economists on the digital economy, productivity, and AI, and the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. A former BBC Trust vice-chair and UK government adviser, she is the bestselling author of The Measure of Progress. On stage, she brings rare clarity to how we measure progress in an economy being reshaped by AI.
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Diane Coyle biography
Diane Coyle is one of the world’s most respected economists and a leading authority on how we measure the modern economy, from productivity and the digital revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence. As the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, she has built her career on a deceptively simple question: what does it actually mean for an economy to improve, and who benefits? Her answers have reshaped debates among policymakers, statisticians, and business leaders around the world.
Economics speaker Diane Coyle co-directs the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge and previously served as Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. A former vice-chair of the BBC Trust and adviser to the UK Treasury, she currently sits on the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Council and advises the Competition and Markets Authority. She was made a Dame in 2023 for her contribution to economics and public policy, and is the author of ten influential books, including the acclaimed GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History.
Measuring What Really Matters in the Age of AI
Coyle’s latest book, The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters (2025), argues that the statistical framework built in the 1940s no longer fits a digital, AI-driven economy, and makes the case for measuring what genuinely improves people’s lives. She has taken this work directly into the AI debate: in a recent essay for Project Syndicate, she argues that conventional metrics fail to capture AI’s true economic impact, and that governments and businesses urgently need better data on how the technology is reshaping industries, work, and daily life.
As a speaker, Diane Coyle is authoritative, lucid, and refreshingly free of jargon, translating complex economics into insight that leaders can act on. She speaks on the economic impact of AI, productivity and the digital economy, the limits of GDP and how we should measure progress, and the policies that foster genuine, shared prosperity. Audiences leave with a sharper understanding of the forces reshaping the global economy, and a smarter way to think about growth in an age of rapid technological change.
Diane Coyle Speaking Videos
How to take the future of the economy seriously | Diane Coyle | TEDxEastEnd
Prof. Diane Coyle | Causal Inference in Public Policy
Diane Coyle Keynote Topics
Is AI genuinely transforming the economy, or is the promise of rapid growth partly hype? Drawing on her recent research, Coyle examines why traditional metrics like GDP struggle to capture AI's true impact, and what we should measure instead, from energy consumption and data use to labor-market shifts and the adoption of AI agents. She gives leaders and policymakers a clearer, evidence-based picture of how AI is really reshaping industries, work, and daily life, cutting through both the hype and the fear.
Drawing on her acclaimed book, Coyle argues that the way we measure the economy, largely designed in the 1940s, now acts as a distorting lens on a digital, service-driven world. She explains why so much of modern economic value goes uncounted, why that gap fuels political and social strain, and what a modern framework for measuring genuine progress would look like. A fascinating, accessible talk on the numbers that quietly shape policy, business, and everyday life.
Why, despite extraordinary technological advances, has measured productivity growth stalled across advanced economies? Coyle unpacks one of the central puzzles in modern economics, exploring how digitalization changes the way value is created, why official statistics miss so much of it, and what leaders and governments can do to unlock the growth that new technologies promise. Essential perspective for anyone trying to understand where real economic value now comes from.
GDP can decide elections, move markets, and shape policy, yet it was never designed to measure wellbeing or sustainability. Coyle traces how this single number came to rule our world, why it increasingly falls short, and how a broader view of prosperity, one that accounts for nature, data, and human wellbeing, could lead to better decisions. A thought-provoking keynote on rethinking what growth really means.
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Why Diane Coyle?
Booking Diane Coyle brings audiences one of the most authoritative and genuinely engaging economists working today. A Cambridge professor, bestselling author, and adviser to governments, she has a rare gift for making complex economics clear, relevant, and even entertaining, without diluting the rigor. Her work sits exactly where the biggest questions of the moment converge: AI, productivity, the digital economy, and how we define progress itself. Audiences leave with sharper thinking and a genuinely fresh perspective on the forces reshaping business and society. She is ideal for events on economics, AI and technology, the future of the economy, and public policy. To bring Diane Coyle to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Diane Coyle?
Professor Dame Diane Coyle is a British economist widely regarded as a leading authority on economic measurement, productivity, the digital economy, and AI policy. She is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she co-directs the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. A former vice-chair of the BBC Trust, member of the UK Competition Commission, and Treasury adviser, she now serves on the UK Government's Industrial Strategy Council. She is the author of ten books, including GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, Cogs and Monsters, and The Measure of Progress, and was made a Dame in 2023 for her contribution to economics and public policy.
What is The Measure of Progress about?
The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters (2025) is Diane Coyle's acclaimed book arguing that the statistical framework we use to measure the economy, largely developed in the 1940s, is badly outdated for a digital, AI-driven world. She shows how today's metrics render large parts of the modern economy invisible, from free digital services to global supply chains and the value of data, and why that mismeasurement leads to poorer decisions and strained politics. Coyle makes the case for a new framework, built around a fuller picture of what genuinely improves people's lives, so that governments and businesses can pursue the right kind of growth.
What topics does economics speaker Diane Coyle cover?
Diane Coyle speaks on the economic impact of AI, productivity and the digital economy, the limits of GDP and how we should measure progress, and the policies that drive genuine, shared prosperity. Her keynotes suit events on economics, AI and technology, the future of the economy, and public policy. To book Diane Coyle as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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