Watch this informative virtual talk where Ian Peacock discusses how attitudes towards bankers have changed
In Ian's own words: Bankers currently are regarded as people out for themselves who are besotted with greed and who seem incapable of judging risk. Yet a few decades ago bankers were regarded as pillars of society, people who were unlikely to cause a stir. How have the banks and the bankers themselves changed over the period and how has society helped to mould those changes? Is there any way in which, in a modern, open, global society, bankers can redeem themselves and begin to act responsibly in providing and being seen to provide a useful public service?
About the speaker
Ian Peacock spent 25 years as a Banker, mainly at Kleiwort, Benson and Barclays and in London, Hong Kong and New York. During the last two decades, he has held a number of non-executive and advisory posts, primarily in the Retail, Social Housing and Financial sectors. He was a special advisor to the Bank of England and Chairman of two retail companies - Howdens Joinery and Mothercare. In the Housing Sector, Peacock Chaired Family Mosaic, a major London housing association, and The Housing Finance Corporation. In Cambridge, he is a Trustee of PHG Foundation, a 'think tank' specialising in the application of medical science to public health problems, and he is also a Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall.