Vicky Pryce

Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser and board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), an international  business consultancy and economic think tank based in London. She was previously Director General for Economics at the UK's Business Department and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service. Before that she was Partner and Chief Economist, as well as for part of the period she was there, Head of Strategy and Head of International Privatisations, at the accounting and consulting firm KPMG after senior economic positions in banking and the oil sector.

Her past academic positions included being Adjunct Professor at Imperial College Business School, Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford , and Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University as well as sitting on the Council of the University of Kent, on the Council of the Royal Economic Society and as a Governor at the London School of Economics.

She is currently Visiting Professor at BCU and King’s College, London, 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 also co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on business ethics. Her books include: Greekonomics: The Euro crisis and Why Politicians Don't Get It; It's the Economy, Stupid- Economics for Voters, with Ross and Urwin; Redesigning Manufacturing, with Nielsen and Beverland; and Women vs Capitalism- Why We Can’t have it All in a  Free Market Economy. Her latest co-authored book, How to be a Successful Economist, has just been published by Oxford University Press.