Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser and a board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). She was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service. Before that she was Partner and Chief Economist at the accounting and consulting firm KPMG after senior economic positions in banking and the oil sector. She is Visiting Professor at BCU and King’s College London , on the International Business Departmental Advisory board for Leeds University Business School, a Fellow and Council member of the UK Academy for Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists and a Companion of the British Academy of Management. She is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on corporate social responsibly, a patron of Pro Bono Economics ,a member of the Advisory Board of the central banking think-tank OMFIF, a fellow of the Radix Centre for Business, Politics and Society, on the Advisory Group of the Better Regulation CIC, and on the Economic Advisory Council of the British Chambers of Commerce. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum(IWFUK) and of the London Chapter of Women Corporate Directors(WCD), a patron of the charities ‘Pro-bono Economics’ and ‘Working Chance’, a Freeman and Liveryman of the City of London and was the first female Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants. She is also on the steering committee of the Greek-British Symposium and on the Steering Council of komvos-node.org.
Earlier roles included being on the Council of the Royal Economic Society, on the Council of the University of Kent, on the board of trustees of the RSA, on the Executive committee and then the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, on the Court of the London School of Economics, a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College , Adjunct Professor at Imperial College Business School, Honorary Professor at Cass(now City University) Business School),Visiting Professor at Aston University and also Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, University of London.
Her latest book, ‘How to be a Successful Economist’, with Ross, Harwood and Birdi was published in December 2022 by Oxford University Press.
Vicky is a regular media commentator on radio and TV and a frequent speaker at UK and international conferences and events.
