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Can Europe Survive? Meet the Leaders with David Marsh and Vicky Pryce
Webinar date: Monday 7th September, 6.00PM
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the war in Ukraine, from Black Wednesday to Mario Draghi's "whatever it takes", David Marsh has spent four decades charting Europe's fault lines as they happened. Please register below to join David Marsh, Chairman and CEO of OMFIF and author of Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World,and Vicky Pryce, Chair of Radix Big Tent, for another interactive Radix Big Tent Meet the Leaders webinar at 6.00pm on Monday 7th September.
David's seventh book draws on interviews with some 200 of the people who shaped modern Europe since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
Europe now faces a reckoning it can no longer defer: a war on its eastern border with no resolution in sight, a defence capability built for a different era, an economy still lagging on the reforms Mario Draghi himself called for, and a United States under Donald Trump that can no longer be relied on as an unconditional guarantor. Marsh argues Europe, Britain included, still has everything to play for, if it can find the resilience the moment demands. Can it? Join David and Vicky to ask what comes next.
Register below and join David and Vicky at this important interactive discussion, 6.00-7.00pm, Monday 7th September.
David Marsh
David Marsh is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of OMFIF. Before starting at OMFIF in late 2009, he worked for City merchant bank Robert Fleming, corporate finance boutique Hawkpoint, German management consultancy Droege and London investment firm London & Oxford. Marsh took over the chairmanship from John Plender in January 2018 having been Managing Director since 2014. He reverted to an executive role after John Orchard stepped down in October 2024 following five years as Chief Executive Officer.
Marsh is a visiting Professor at Sheffield University and King's College London. He is former co-founder, chairman and deputy chairman of the German-British Forum. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2000 and was awarded the German Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2003.
He started his career at Reuters in 1973 having graduated with a BA in chemistry from The Queen's College Oxford. Between 1978 and 1995 he worked for the Financial Times in France and Germany, latterly as European Editor in London. Marsh has written six books on politics and economics, mainly on Germany and Europe. His seventh book, Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World, was published by Yale University Press in autumn 2025.
Vicky Pryce
Vicky Pryce is the Chair of Radix Big Tent and a leading economist, whose career includes being Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and Chief Economist and Partner at KPMG. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser and board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. Vicky is also Chair of the Economic Advisory Council for the British Chambers of Commerce and a visiting Professor at King's College, London and Birmingham City University. In addition, she is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on Corporate Social Responsibility.
