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Professor Dame Diane Coyle

Fair Growth in the Digital Age

The Bennett Institute for Public Policy was launched in 2018 with endowed funding from the Peter Bennett Foundation, which also endowed the chair of Bennett Professor of Public Policy, held by Dame Diane Coyle. Diane’s research focuses on productivity, the digital economy and AI policy, and economic measurement. One of her many books, Beyond GDP, has been translated into over 10 languages. In August 2025, the Institute became the Bennett School of Public Policy, broadening its interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement.

At the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Professor Dame Diane Coyle’s mission, “the right kind of growth, fairly shared,” guides her teaching, research, and advisory work. She challenges conventional measures of progress, advocating for economic models grounded in well-being, sustainability, and inclusion.

Her policy work includes advising government bodies and working with statisticians to develop new economic measurement frameworks to reflect sustainable progress.

In digital policy, she promotes governance that balances innovation with fairness, warning that unchecked network effects can create “winner-takes-most” markets. Starting in 2026, she will direct the Bennett School’s MPhil in Digital Policy, an interdisciplinary course tackling online safety, regulation, and technology-driven growth.

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Fair Growth in the Digital Age

Our goal is to help students think critically and work collaboratively to make evidence-based decisions in a fast-changing digital world. The new Bennett School will prepare future leaders to shape policies that promote fair competition, ethical data use, and inclusive, sustainable growth.