Hall Fellow Dr Linda Yueh honoured in New Year Honours 2023

St Edmund Hall congratulates Dr Linda Yueh, Fellow by Special Election in Economics, for receiving a CBE for ‘Services to Economics’ in the 2023 New Year Honours List.

Dr Yueh’s research focuses on economic development and growth, with an emphasis on the changing structure of the global economy.

She has written/edited 11 books including a textbook, Macroeconomics, and is the Series Editor for the Routledge Series on Economic Growth and Development books. She has published widely in leading journals and served as guest editor of World Development and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. Dr Yueh was appointed as an Adviser to the UK Board of Trade in 2020. In 2021, she was appointed by HM Treasury as a member of the Independent Review Panel on Ring-fencing and Proprietary Trading.

Linda writes: “I am humbled and deeply honoured. I will continue to contribute in various ways, including deepening our knowledge of economics and how it can improve standards of living as well as continuing to make economics accessible and applicable to policymaking. Having started out as a postgraduate student at the Hall, I am grateful to my wonderful colleagues at Oxford who have been supportive and stimulating throughout my career.”