Vasiliki "Vicky" Pryce (née Kourmouzi (Greek: Βασιλική Κουρμούζη); born 15 July 1952)[2][3] is a Greek-born British economist and a former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service.

[18] 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.

[27] The authors, Vicky Pryce, Andy Ross, Alvin Birdi and Ian Harwood, walk readers through the interview process for graduate positions and the attributes that employers are looking for.

Dr Matthew Aldrich, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of East Anglia, described the book as "original" and said "there is no comparable text I know of and the pragmatic issues are covered extremely well".

[28] Jarkko Immonen, a careers counsellor at the University of Helsinki, called it a "comprehensive hands-on look at the world of work from an economist's point of view with an emphasis on opportunities and societal relevance".

[32] In The Guardian, Polly Toynbee said it was a "long overdue dissection of the vital subject of gender equality through Vicky Pryce's forensic economic lens".

The book argues that by failing to remove the 'barriers' to female progression, the UK is being "starved" of the talent it needs to grow and prosper to its full potential.

It redresses the situation, which it suggests is more fiction than fact, by focusing on the real successes of the sector and the strategies used by makers to achieve sustainable results.

The book, Prisonomics: Behind Bars in Britain's Failing Prisons, makes claims about the economic and human costs of imprisoning women, with especial reference to herself.

[42] In early July 2013 Vicky Pryce appeared as an expert witness before the House of Lords cross-party subcommittee on economic and financial affairs, saying she saw no quick end to the eurozone crisis since structural reform would take a long time.

Pryce favoured fiscal policy that included a stimulus package and wanted the European Central Bank to buy bonds.

[36] Pryce was interviewed twice by Essex Police in 2011 over allegations that, in 2003, she had accepted driving licence penalty points actually incurred by her then husband, Chris Huhne (then an MEP).

[13] In 1984, she married Chris Huhne, who later became an MEP and then the Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.