Anat Admati at the London School of EconomicsThe Bankers' New Clothes

Join the London School of Economics and the Financial Markets Group for a lecture by leading finance scholar Anat Admati, as she discusses her book The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong With Banking and What to Do about It. In this engaging lecture, Admati will explore how bankers, regulators, academics, and others resist meaningful reform in the sector, and explains how the banking system can be made safer and healthier for all. She exposes the shortcomings of current policies and reveals how the dominance of banking even presents dangers to the rule of law and democracy itself.


Anat Admati is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has written for the New York Times and the Financial Times and has been included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People and Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.