All About The Budget! Andy Ross and Vicky Pryce on Mismanaged Decline

Vicky is the Chair of the Fellows at Radix Big Tent and a leading economist whose career includes being Director General for Economics at the Department for BIS, Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service and Chief Economist and Partner at KPMG. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. She is also Chair of the Economic Advisory Council for the British Chambers of Commerce and a visiting Professor at KCL and BCU. She is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on Corporate Social Responsibility.

Andy Ross is both an academic and practitioner economist. He is a former Deputy Director in the Government Economic Service (GES) and was the Head of Professional Development for the GES, and later for the Society of Professional Economists.   Andy is a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists and of the Academy of Social Science.

A visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Andy was also: a visiting professor at Loughborough University and earlier at the University of Reading; visiting research fellow Leeds University; Trustee and Director of the Academy of Social Sciences; Economist for High Oak Enterprises; and Patron of the Economics Network. Andy has served as the Chief Adviser for the Government Economic Service Economic Assessment Centre recruitment (EAC) and regularly trained the GES recruitment assessors for the GES in England, Scotland and Wales. He was an employer representative on the QAA subject benchmarks for Economics and one of two employer representatives for the Teaching Excellence Framework pilot for Social Science and the Built Environment. Author of various articles, he has also been the keynote speaker at major conferences for economists. Andy was joint author with Vicky Pryce and Peter Urwin of It’s the Economy Stupid (2015) published by Biteback and of How to be a Successful Economist with Vicky Pryce, Alvin Birdi and Ian Harwood, published by Oxford University Press. 

Chief Executive of Radix UK since 2019, Ben is a political strategist, writer and broadcaster. In 2021, he led the merger between Radix think tank and the Big Tent Ideas Festival and he continues to take overall responsibility for Radix Big Tent’s growing programme to promote system renewal.

Former Chief of Staff and Campaign Director for then Liberal Democrat Leader, Tim Farron MP, Ben was also previously Chief Executive of the Movement for Reform Judaism and prior to that a Partner at City Public Relations firm, Luther Pendragon.