Diane Coyle is a consultant and columnist for The Independent. After getting her Ph.D. from Harvard, she spent a year at the U.S. Treasury. She worked in the private sector and is an economist and a writer specializing in business, technology, and global economics. She was the Economics Editor for The Independent for eight years and in 2000 was the winner of the prestigious Wincott Award for Senior Financial Journalist.

She is currently Managing Director of Enlightenment Economics, a consultancy, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics' Center for Economic Performance. Diane has written three other books: Paradoxes of Prosperity, The Weightless World and Governing the World Economy. She lives in London with her family.