Clark McGinn

Clark is well known as a speaker and writer on Robert Burns (speaking at a dozen Burns Suppers across the world every year) but his latest book, Out Of Pocket is the fruit of his 25 years banking career in London and New York. As discussed on the Today programme, this approachable study of banking crisis and financial folly over the centuries explains how today's crunch has happened before and, warns that,without major changes, it will happen again in the future.

He writes for The Scotsman, Sunday Herald and other newspapers and his speeches have been seen on TV in the UK and abroad.