The State of UK Politics: Local Elections Analysis - Meet the Leaders with Prof. Tony Travers

Tony Travers is Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He is also a professor in the LSE’s Government Department. His key research interests include public finance, local/regional government and devolution.

In 2012-13 and again in 2016-17, he chaired the London Finance Commission and was a member of the City Growth Commission and also the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance in Wales. He co-chaired the King’s Commission on London. He was an advisor to the House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee until June 2024. He is a member of the London Partnership Board.

He is an Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy and also of the Institute of Revenues, Rating & Valuation. He has published books and book chapters on local government, devolution, cities, and London.

Vicky Pryce is the Chair of Radix Big Tent and a leading economist and author, 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 after senior positions in banking and the energy sector. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser 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. She is a patron of Pro-Bono Economics and was co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on business ethics.