We are delighted to welcome Vicky Pryce, Andy Ross and Ian Harwood, who will speak at HM Treasury on their new book, How to be a Successful Economist. Drawing on their personal experience and extensive interviews with practitioners the authors consider what attributes are valued by employers and how to exhibit these successfully.   Join us for a unique discussion about a topic of interest to all SPE members.

Vicky Pryce FAcSS is Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research, previously Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and Partner and Chief Economist at KPMG, after senior economic posts in banking and the oil sector. She is Visiting Professor at BCU and KCL, Fellow and Council member of the Academy for Social Sciences, Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists and Companion of the British Academy of Management. She sits on the Advisory Board of the central banking think-tank OMFIF and on the advisory group of Better Statistics CIC. Her books include: ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid, Economics for Voters’; with Ross and Urwin, ‘Greekonomics: The Euro crisis’ and Why Politicians Don’t Get It’.  She is co-founder of GoodCorporation, formed to advise on business ethics.

(Visiting) Professor Andy Ross FAcSS is both an academic and practitioner economist, a former Deputy Director and Head of Professional Development in the Government Economic Service (GES). For many years Andy was Chief Adviser to the GES for their recruitment assessment centre and regularly trained their recruitment assessors. He is a Visiting Professor and part-time lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London and at Loughborough University. He is also Economist Advisor to High Oak Enterprises and a patron of the Economics Network.

Ian Harwood is a leading and award-winning practitioner in the City, focused upon global economic and financial developments. He has undertaken a wide range of economics-focussed, investment advisory and educational roles. He is currently Economic Adviser at Redburn and also acts as Independent Investment Adviser to a number of institutional investors and is a Trustee Director of the UBS Pension Scheme. He is a Fellow of the SPE having served on the Society’s Council from 2008 to 2017, where he advocated substantive changes in the way economics is taught in British universities and has been an employer representative on the QAA’s Economics subject benchmark statement committee. He also led the creation of the SPE’s Continuing Professional Development programme and is currently the Society’s Book Reviews Editor.

Registration is from 5.00pm. The talks will be followed by networking drinks until 7.30pm.

We are grateful to HM Treasury for kindly hosting this event.