Join the David Hume Institute in conversation about productivity and the economy with University of Oxford Emeritus DP World Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Linda Scott.  Linda will discuss her latest book The Double X Economy:  The Epic Potential of Women’s Empowerment in conversation with Rachel Statham and chaired by Susan Murray, Director of the David Hume Institute.

For fifteen years, Professor Scott has worked with multinational corporations, international agencies, national governments, and global NGOs to design, implement, and test programs to better include women in the world economy. Professor Scott is formerly Senior Consulting Fellow to Chatham House, the Royal Institute for International Affairs and is founder of the Global Business Coalition for Women’s Economic Empowerment, a group of eleven multinational corporations working together on women’s economic empowerment globally. She is currently working with the World Bank to build new practices for assessing women-owned businesses on a national level. She is also a visiting professor at Brown University where she teaches “Gender, Economics, and Entrepreneurship.”

Professor Scott’s book was  short-listed for the Royal Society’s Best Science Book of 2020 and was long-listed for the Financial Times/McKinsey & Company Best Business Book of 2020.  The Double X Economy was also one of The Guardian’s Best Science Books of 2020 and was Porchlight’s Best Business Book of 2020. The book is being translated into ten languages for release in 40 countries in 2021.

Linda's book is available from Tom at Independent bookstore Typewronger books and includes free delivery by bike in Edinburgh.