Diana is a leading expert on China’s economy and politics. She is Chief Economist at Enodo Economics, an independent macroeconomic, political and geopolitical forecasting company she set up in 2016 to untangle complexity, challenge the consensus, and give pointers to the future by making sense of today. Enodo’s focus is China and its global impact.

Diana has been covering China for over two decades and has written four books. In 2025, she authored ‘Petrodollar to Digital Yuan: China, the Gulf, and the 21st Century Path to De-Dollarization’; in 2022, she co-authored ‘China’s Quest for Financial Self-reliance - How Beijing Plans to Decouple from the Dollar-Based Global Trading and Financial System’; in 2011 ‘The American Phoenix – and Why China and Europe Will Struggle After the Coming Slump’; and in 2006 ‘The Bill from the China Shop – How Asia’s Savings Glut Threatens the World Economy’.

Diana joined the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, as a non-resident Senior Fellow on the Chinese economy in June 2023.
From March 2023 to August 2025, Diana served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of JPMorgan Asia Growth and Income plc.

Before Enodo she worked at Lombard Street Research (now TS Lombard) for 16 years, most recently as their Chief Economist and Head of Research, setting the agenda for the firm’s team of economists and strategists while conducting her own global analysis.

She joined LSR after completing her master’s degree in Economics at Warwick University in 2000 and became an executive director in 2005. Diana headed the firm’s UK Service from 2005 until 2009. Between 2010 and 2013 she was based in Hong Kong overseeing LSR’s expansion in Asia.

Diana writes regular opinion pieces for the FT, WSJ, Nikkei Asian Review, Foreign Policy etc. She has extensive global experience engaging with all manner of audiences and is a regular commentator on Bloomberg, the BBC, CNBC and others.