Lydia Prieg

Lydia is in the Finance and Business team. She is currently working with a consortium of European NGOs to ensure that EU financial reform initiatives serve sustainable development, in both developed and developing countries. Lydia is undertaking research into a wide-range of issues, including the too-big-to-fail problem, taxation of the financial sector, the sovereign debt crisis, regulation of derivatives and capital flows, reform of the credit rating industry, private investment in developing countries, and competition problems.

Lydia has a MA in Physics from the University of Oxford.  Prior to joining nef in 2010, she worked in banking: on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs, selling interest-rate-derivatives (bonds, interest-rate-swaps and inflation-swaps) to UK banks, building societies, asset managers and pension funds. She left Goldman Sachs in 2009 to do an MSc in Political Science & Political Economy at the London School of Economics, where her dissertation explored UK legislative politics. During her studies she worked part-time in the UK parliament for the Labour Party.