Vicky Pryce is an Economist and Business Consultant. Vicky's posts have included: 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 Economics Service. She had previously been Partner and Chief Economist at KPMG and earlier held Chief Economist positions in banking and the oil sector. Vicky co-founded GoodCorporation, a company set up to promote corporate social responsibility.
At various stages in her career she has been on the Council of the Royal Economic Society, on the Council of the University of Kent, on the board of trustees at the RSA, on the Court of the London School of Economics, a fellow of the Society of Business Economists, on the Executive Committee and the Council of the IFS, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Visiting Professor at the Cass Business School, a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Adjunct Professor at Imperial College and Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London.
She is patron of 'Pro-bono Economics' and has served as Master of one of the City of London's Livery Companies. She has also been the author of numerous publications, including Greekonomics on the Eurozone crisis and Prisonomics, arguing that the prison system in England and Wales is not fit for purpose
