Diana Choyleva

Diana Choyleva is founder and chief economist of Enodo Economics, a macroeconomic, political, and geopolitical forecasting company in London focused on China and its global impact. She is also senior fellow on Chinese Economy at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Enodo’s focus is China, one of the most misunderstood economies in the world, yet one of the most important to figure out. Choyleva has been covering China for over two decades and has written three books, China’s Quest for Financial Self-reliance – How Beijing Plans to Decouple from the Dollar-Based Global Trading and Financial System; The American Phoenix — and Why China and Europe Will Struggle After the Coming Slump; and The Bill from the China Shop — How Asia’s Savings Glut Threatens the World Economy.

In 2023 she joined JPMorgan Asia Growth and Income plc as a Non-executive Director to the Board. Later that year, Choyleva joined the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, as a non-resident Senior Fellow on the Chinese economy. Before Enodo she worked at Lombard Street Research (now TS Lombard) for 16 years, most recently as their Chief Economist and Head of Research. She joined LSR after completing her master’s degree in Economics in 2000 and over the years has covered a wide range of developing and developed economies. Choyleva became a director of LSR in 2005 and headed the firm’s UK Service from then until 2009. Between 2010 and 2013 she was based in Hong Kong overseeing LSR’s expansion in Asia.

Choyleva writes regular opinion pieces for the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Nikkei Asian Review, etc. She has extensive global experience engaging with all manner of audiences and is a regular commentator on Bloomberg, the BBC, CNBC, and others.