Linda Yueh
Saturday 27th September 11.00
Dr Linda Yueh CBE FREcon FRSA is 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). Dr Yueh is a Member of the UK Soft Power Council, co-chaired by the Secretaries of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), where she serves as Co-Chair of the U.S. Working Group. She is a Non-Executive Director of three FTSE 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE): Rentokil Initial plc, SEGRO plc and Standard Chartered plc, where she is Chair of the Culture and Sustainability Committee. She is Chair of Baillie Gifford's The Schiehallion Fund Ltd, a LSE-listed investment company that solely invests in private growth companies, and a Senior Advisor/Member of the Advisory Board of Greene King. She is Executive Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society. She is a Trustee of the Fidelity UK Foundation and the Fidelity International Foundations, where she is on the Finance and Investment Subcommittees. She serves on the Advisory Board of LSE IDEAS and on the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), both at the London School of Economics. She is a Member of The Bretton Woods Committee.
The global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in modern financial history. Since America's Wall Street Crash of 1929, the global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in financial history. From the currency crises of the 1980s, to Japan's housing meltdown, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial crash and the COVID pandemic, crash after crash has sent shockwaves through our world. The Great Crashes tells the stories of ten of these historic financial events. They serve as a series of cautionary tales, each with their own lessons to be learnt. With clear-eyed analysis, renowned economist Professor Linda Yueh uses these meltdowns to extract a critical three-step framework to help recognise the early signs of a crash, mitigate the effects and even prevent them in the future. There is very little that is certain in economics, except for this: there will be another financial crisis. Combining her in-depth knowledge with compelling storytelling, The Great Crashes is essential reading that offers urgent lessons for the modern world.
