Philip Augar

Philip Augar is the author of "The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of London's Investment Banks" (Penguin, 2000) and "The Greed Merchants: How the Investment Banks Played the Free Market Game" (Penguin, 2005). Augar was an equities broker in the city of London for twenty years from the 1970s, first with NatWest and J. Henry Schroder, and was part of the team that negotiated the sale of Schroders investment bank to Citigroup.

Augar holds a doctorate in History and is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management.