Vicky Pryce
Board member, Chair of Fellows
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Board member, Chair of Fellows
Board Member, Founder of Politika
Board Member, Founder of Politika
Frustrated with the lack of cross-party opportunities to engage with politics, Piers founded Politika at the age of 16 to provide a platform for young people to develop practical solutions to the issues that affect young people the most.
In August 2022, he co-authored a policy paper aiming to modernise GCSEs. In January 2023 Piers helped form the Politika Youth Advisory Board which aims to accelerate the potential of young leaders and support Radix Big Tent in achieving its core objectives.
Outside of Politika, Piers is a final-year Business Management student at the University of Exeter with experience working in consulting and space-tech venture capital.
Board Member, Fellow
Board Member, Fellow
Dr Paul Goldsmith is a consultant physician with a triple 1st from Cambridge and a clinical scholarship from Oxford. His PhD assessed and showed that the simplicity of developmental biology could be use to understand complex human disease. He then went on to co-found and help build both biotech and digital health companies.
His current company, Closed Loop Medicine, is taking an integrated systems approach to clinical therapy. He also has extensive NHS systems and strategic experience, including Clinical Networks, Vanguard and Clinical Senate roles.
Big Tent Ideas Festival Director
Big Tent Ideas Festival Director
Georgie has for many years worked in sales, fundraising and events; in 2012 she sold an events business. Immediately prior to joining the Big Tent in 2018 she was Head of Events at a military charity with responsibility for corporate fundraising as well as sponsorship and managing budgets.
Board member, Fellow
Board member, Fellow
Magdalena Polan is a senior economist working in the asset management industry, responsible primarily for macroeconomic analysis and investment strategy across global emerging markets. Before moving to investment management, she was a senior economist at Goldman Sachs, where she led research coverage of CEE economies, advising financial and corporate investors on the economic outlook, policy conditions, and investment strategies in CEE and wider emerging markets, and commenting frequently on these issues in the CEE and European media.
Prior to that, she spent six years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where she worked on crisis prevention and resolution, sovereign debt restructurings, development of capital markets, and issues related to monetary policy and sovereign asset and liability management. She also advised a number of governments in these areas.
Her research work has mainly focused on monetary policy, inflation, international trade, and development of capital markets. She holds a MSc in Advanced Economics from KU Leuven and BSc in Economics from Warsaw University. She is also a graduate of Warsaw’s Collegium Invisibile where she studied sociology and political science.
Chief Executive
Chief Executive
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.
He has been an adviser to the Home Office and the Cabinet Office, to blue chip companies such as Sky, British Gas, and Kimberly-Clarke, and to successful campaigns such as the one to introduce televised Prime Ministerial debates in 2010 and establish civil partnerships for mixed sex couples across England and Wales.
He is the co-founder of the York Liberal Jewish Community and a coach to the Yorkshire junior chess team.
Board member, Fellow
Board member, Fellow
Nick Silver is an actuary and economist whose specialities include risk management, social insurance and environmental finance.
Board member, Fellow
Board member, Fellow
Joe Zammit-Lucia is a RADIX Co-Founder and board member. He is an entrepreneur and commentator on business and political issues writing in outlets in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands. His particular interest is the relationship between business and politics.
Chair
Chair
Michael Holland was a banker in the Middle East, New York and London. He became a serial entrepreneur in the financial services sector and is now an angel investor in small companies.
He read Politics, Philosophy & Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford.
Board member
Board member
Steff currently serves as the Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk since being elected at the 2024 general election. He was previously an entrepreneur working in the tech and entertainment sectors, and has been involved in digital transformation projects for 50+ S&P500 companies.
Board member
Board member
Guy de Selliers chairs the PIONEER Trial Steering Committee. He is a former banker and director of a number of companies including chairman of the board of AG Insurance SA, the leading insurance company in Belgium. He is a member of the RADIX board and chair of RADIX.
Board member
Board member
The Rt Hon Lord Lansley of Orwell served as Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire from 1997-2015. For thirteen years he was a member of the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet. In the Cabinet, he served as Secretary of State for Health and as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal in which role he led the implementation of the Government’s legislative programme. He served on several parliamentary select committees including Trade and Industry, Health, the Puttnam Commission (scrutinising the draft Communications Bill) and various standing committees including the Water Bill, the Competition Bill and the Enterprise Bill.
He was former Vice Chairman of the Conservative party and Director of the Conservative Party Research Department. He was previously Deputy Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce and Principal Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Norman Tebbit MP.
As an MP, he was a strong supporter of local business, enterprise and innovation and was a staunch champion for the ‘Cambridge Cluster’; the leading science and technology hub in Europe where he was instrumental in delivering key developments for the region. He was educated at the University of Exeter where he was President of the Guild of Students.
