Frances Cairncross

Dame Frances Anne Cairncross, DBE, FRSE, FAcSS (born 30 August 1944 in Otley, England) is a British economist, journalist and academic.

She attended Laurel Bank School in Glasgow and studied for an MA in history at St Anne's College, Oxford, graduating in 1965.

Her uncle John Cairncross was an intelligence officer, spy and double agent, and a translator of literature.

[5] In March 2003, Cairncross won the Institute of Internal Auditors' annual award for business and management journalism.

She authored of The Death of Distance (ISBN 0875848060), a study of the economic and social effects of the global communications revolution, first published in 1997 and re-published in a new edition in 2001.