Vicky Pryce
Board member, Chair of Fellows
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Our fellows ensure the intellectual integrity of Radix Big Tent's work. They are a mixture of academics, writers, economists, business people, politicians and policy-makers able to bring their extraordinary expertise to reviewing all our publications and advising on all our work programmes and events.
Board member, Chair of Fellows
Fellow
Fellow
For three decades, Barry James has been a tech innovator, architect and entrepreneur leading innovation in the NHS, and later in Fintech, Blockchain and Frontier technologies, winning some major UK, US and European patents along the way. As a writer, ecological and systems thinker and analyst more recently, he has focused on the, largely hidden, societal implications of the design and advent of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), via the RemakingMoney project – and the deep impact and dangers of financialised thinking on society and planetary ecology via the Humane Economics project, both of which he founded. He is a fellow of Radix UK
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.
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.
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.
Ashok Gupta is Director of the New Capital Consensus project, a coalition of not-for-profit, apolitical organisations that have come together to explore how the current UK investment system contributes to the country’s current problems of low productivity, inequality and low levels of investment.
Ashok is also Chair of the Financial Systems Thinking Innovation Centre (Finstic), Chair of Mercer UK, and Chair of EV. He is a non-executive Director of Sun Life Financial Inc and of JP Morgan European Discovery Trust.
