Soft Power and Economic Growth: the UK in a changing world

Speaker: Linda Yueh

Does it help when faced with brute force to know you’ve got the BBC and the World Service as your arsenal?

If anyone knows about Soft Power, it’s economist, writer and broadcaster Linda Yueh.  A presenter for both the World Service and Radio 4, she has fronted numerous BBC TV series, including The New Middle Class, Next Billionaires and Working Lives.  She has been their lead Business Correspondent and presented Talking Business with Linda Yueh.  She has also been Economics Editor and anchor at Bloomberg TV.

Dr Yueh is a Fellow in Economics, St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School.  She is a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is also Chair of The Royal Parks and Non-Executive Director of the Independent Football Regulator, a Member of  English Law Promotion and the UK Soft Power Council.  She is a widely published author who has written and edited eleven books. She was appointed CBE for Services to Economics in The King’s New Year’s Honours List 2023.

John Hines Memorial Lecture

Members: Free, Online or Victoria Hall
Non-Members: £10, Online or Victoria Hall. To attend in person, please pay on the door
Please book, for online link only, by 1pm on the day of the event

Please join us for a drink in the Members’ Room after the lecture