Vicky Pryce

Economist & Business Consultant

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.

Books

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How to be a Successful Economist

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Oxford University Press, 2022

The pocket coach for aspiring economists, providing a hands-on guide to the attributes valued by employers, how to exhibit these successfully, and how to navigate the job application process. Throughout, experienced practitioners and recent graduates share candid views about their careers and their advice for the next generation of economists.

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Women Vs Capitalism

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Hurst Publishers, 2019

Subtitled “why we can’t have it all in a free market economy”, Women Vs Capitalism is an urgent call to reform capitalism so that it “stops failing women”.

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves wrote in The Observer that the 2019 book was “fantastic” and “shines a much-needed light on discrimination”. In the Guardian, Polly Toynbee said it was a “long overdue dissection of the vital subject of gender equality through Vicky Pryce’s forensic economic lens”.

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It's the economy, Stupid

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Biteback Publishing, 2015

This 2015 title sets out to be an incisive and accessible voter’s guide to the economy. It answers questions such as “does immigration help or harm the UK economy?” and “are austerity measures the best way to tackle a financial meltdown?”.

It was published by Biteback Publishing and was written with Andy Ross and Peter Urwin.

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Why Women Need Quotas

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Published in 2015 as part of Biteback Publishing’s Provocations series, edited by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Why Women Need Quotas was written with former Management Editor of the FT, Stefan Stern.

The book argues that by failing to remove the barriers to female progression, the UK is being “starved” of the talent it needs to grow and prosper to its full potential.

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Redesigning Manufacturing: Reimagining the Business of Making in the UK

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Co-authored with Michael Beverland and Beverley Nielsen, this 2015 book suggests that UK manufacturing has an “image problem”. It redresses the situation, which it suggests is more fiction than fact, by focusing on the real successes of the sector and the strategies used by makers to achieve sustainable results.

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Prisonomics

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Biteback Publishing, 2013

A compelling analysis of both the economic and very human cost of keeping women behind bars . At a time of straightened public finances the book calls for radical reform in the way we look at crime and punishment.

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Greekonomics: The Euro Crisis and Why Politicians Don’t Get It

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In October 2012, Biteback Publishing brought out her book Greekonomics, a discussion of the crises in the eurozone, with the focus on the country of her birth. Intended for a broad, not merely an academic, readership, the book discusses what Greek exit from the eurozone might mean. It was shortlisted for Spear’s best business book of the year award in 2013.

In early July 2013 Vicky Pryce appeared as an expert witness before the House of Lords cross-party subcommittee on economic and financial affairs, saying she saw no quick end to the eurozone crisis since structural reform would take a long time. Pryce favoured fiscal policy that included a stimulus package and wanted the European Central Bank to buy bonds.

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