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Vicky Pryce CB[1] (born Vasiliki Courmouzis, 1952)[2] is an economist, and former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service.[3]
Early life
She was born in Athens, the daughter of Nicolas and Voula Courmouzis. She studied at the LSE, gaining a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Monetary Economics.
Career
After university she had a "glittering career"[4] at Williams & Glyn's Bank (now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland) from 1973 to 1983 where she worked as an economist and became chief economist, chief economist for KPMG from 1986 to 2001 starting as Peat Marwick McLintock, and corporate economist for Exxon Europe from 1983 to 1986.[5] When having children, she took six weeks off for each child. She left KPMG at Blackfriars in late 2001, and worked for the London Economics consultancy.
DTI
Pryce joined the Department for Trade and Industry in August 2002 as Chief Economic Adviser, the first woman to be appointed to the post, for which the salary was about £110,000.[5] She was also Chairman of the GoodCorporation, an organisation promoting ethical business practices.
She was Deputy Head from 2004 to 2007 of the Government's Economic Service, and Joint Head from 2007 to 2010.
In April 2010, it was announced[5] that she would be leaving the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills where she was Director General, Economics, and Joint Head of the Government Economic Service,[3] to become senior managing director at the finance consultancy firm FTI.[6]
Academia
She has been a visiting professor at City University's Cass Business School from 2002-6 and since 2008, and at Imperial College Business School since 2010; a visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford since 2008; a Fellow of the Society of Business Economists since 2005, and has sat on the Council of the University of Kent since 2005 and of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts (RSA) from 2008-9.[3] She was a Member on the Council of the Royal Economic Society (REconS) from 2002-7.
In 2010 she became the Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants.[7]
Personal life
In 1972 she married an LSE academic with the surname of Pryce, whom she divorced in 1981, having had two daughters together.[4]
Pryce is now separated from Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change;[8] the couple are in the process of divorcing.[2] They married in 1984, and had three children together.[9]
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Nicholas Stern Head of the Government Economic Service
with Dave Ramsden
2007-2010[5] Succeeded by
Dave Ramsden
References
^ "Queen's birthday honours list: Knights". Guardian (London). Saturday 13 June 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
^ a b Gordon Rayner and Rosa Prince (Tuesday 16 May 2011). "Vicky Pryce: the woman behind Chris Huhne's downfall". The Telegraph (London).
^ a b c "About BIS, Management Board". Vicky Pryce biography. Department for Business Innovation and Skills. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
^ a b Ned Temko (Sunday 12 February 2006). "The woman who backs Chris Huhne". Observer (London). Retrieved 26 June 2010.
^ a b c d "Vicky Pryce CB". Press Release. Department for Business Innovation and Skills. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
^ Sam Greenhill (24 June 2010). "Did Huhne's wife lose her job over his affair?". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 26 June 2010.
^ The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants
^ Southern Daily Echo. 19 June 2010. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8229228.MP_Chris_Huhne_leaves_wife_for_another_woman/. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
^ "Profile: Chris Huhne". BBC News. Thursday, 2 March 2006. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
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