Linda Yueh

Biography

Linda Yueh is an accomplished TV and radio commentator and keynote speaker whose deep financial knowledge earned her a CBE for Services to Economics.

Already known to million of listeners on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service Linda has also fronted BBC TV series, inducing The New Middle Class, Next Billionaires, and Working Lives.

She was Chief Business Correspondent for BBC News, presenter of Talking Business with Linda Yueh for BBC World TV and BBC News Channel. She was also Economics Editor and anchor at Bloomberg TV.

Linda reaches many more people as an in-demand speaker, moderator and conference host. She is a brilliant keynote speaker on the economy and finance.

She’s taken her best-selling book ‘The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How To Prevent Them’ to the prestigious Cambridge Union, London Business School and the Oxford Literary Festival.

With so much economic turbulence around the world Linda’s expertise is in high demand. She formed part of a General Election panel for the BBC, spoke about mortgages and consumer borrowing for BBC Radio Four’s Today programme and discussed the influential Chinese economy. Just a few of the topics Linda has addressed recently include the future of money, corporations vs the people and capitalism and the climate.

Linda is a Chair, Trustee or Director of a string of high profile financial bodies including the Royal Commonwealth Society, Standard Chartered, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity UK Foundation and the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance.