Vicky Pryce
Board Member, Chair of Fellows
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Board Member, Chair of Fellows
Board Member, Chair of Fellows
Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser and a board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). She was previously 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 Economic Service. Before that she was Partner and Chief Economist at the accounting and consulting firm KPMG after senior economic positions in banking and the oil sector. She is Visiting Professor at BCU and King's College London.
She is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on corporate social responsibly. She was the first female Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants. She is also on the steering committee of the Greek-British Symposium and on the Steering Council of komvos-node.org.
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.
Fellow
Fellow
Magdalena Polan is a Principal and Lead Economist for major emerging market economies in Central Europe and the Middle East for PGIM Fixed Income and is based in London. She 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.
Board Member, Fellow
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, Board Member
Chair, Board Member
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, Fellow
Board Member, Fellow
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, Fellow
Board Member, Fellow
Guy de Selliers de Moranville was a senior advisor to the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative. He also currently serves as the president and co-founder of HCF International Advisors, a leading corporate finance advisory firm focused on the mining and metals industry.
Previously, he was an adviser to the European Commission and co-chairman with the Russian deputy minister of energy of a joint European/Russian task force for the development of energy projects of strategic interest (2001-02). From 1990 to 1997, he was the first member of the transition team responsible for creating the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and subsequently vice chairman of the credit committee and member of the EBRD’s executive committee. Prior, he was senior vice president for international investment banking at Lehman Brothers (1982-90), and a project officer with the World Bank responsible for metals and mining projects (1977-82).
Guy holds a master’s degree in engineering (with honors) and master’s degree in economics (with honors) from Louvain University in Belgium. He is a member of the RADIX board and chair of RADIX.
Board Member, Fellow
Board Member, Fellow
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.
