Dr Linda Yueh, CBE

Appointed

Linda was appointed an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered PLC and the Court of Standard Chartered Bank in January 2023.

Experience

Linda is a renowned economist and financial broadcaster with a diverse range of skills and experience across financial services, technology, not-for-profit and business-to-business service sectors.

Career

Linda has held various academic roles and acted in various advisory roles after starting her career as a corporate lawyer at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Linda was Economics Editor at Bloomberg News from 2010 to 2012 and Chief Business Correspondent for the BBC between 2013 and 2015. She was a Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2019 to 2022. She was an Adviser to the UK Board of Trade from 2020 to 2023, and served on the Independent Review Panel on Ring-Fencing and Proprietary Trading for HM Treasury from 2021 to 2022.

Between 2011 and 2013, Linda held non-executive directorships with Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Plc, London & Partners Ltd and JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income Plc. She was Senior Independent Director of Fidelity China Special Situations Plc from 2019 to 2022, and a Trustee of the Coutts Charitable Foundation from 2014 until 2023. Linda has been awarded a CBE for Services to Economics in the New Year Honours List of 2023.

External Appointments

Linda is a Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School.  She serves as an independent non-executive director of Rentokil Initial Plc and Segro Plc. She is Chair of Baillie Gifford’s The Schiehallion Fund Ltd, an investment company listed on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange. Linda is Executive Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Trustee of the Fidelity UK and International Foundations, and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House.