Witness Seminars

The Lombard Street Research Witness seminar programme presents annual events where key figures are brought together to analyse the causes and consequences of pivotal events in which they were involved. Each event allows the protagonists to present their own insider perspective and then opens out into discussion where the panellists draw valuable conclusions for current and future strategists. The proceedings have been documented for posterity and transcriptions prepared for each event.

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Invitations to our Witness Seminars are extended to our premium clients.

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Please click on the images below to find out more about our three Witness seminars to date:

November 2008: The Monetary Merry-Go-Round
International monetary instability since 1968

During a year that witnessed extraordinary upheaval in global financial markets, we examined international monetary instability since 1968. Our guest of honour was Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The occasion was to commemorate 40 years since Bretton Woods and to gather together witnesses of this and other earlier episodes of instability, to see if they have lessons for us today.

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November 2007: The Turning Point
Black Wednesday and the rebirth of the British economy

To mark the fifteenth anniversary of the UK's withdrawal from the Exchange Rate Mechanism we hosted a full day of discussion and debate that tracked the  events that have shaped the national economic agenda since the decision was taken to enter the ERM in 1989.

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March 2006: The Old Gilt-Edged Market - Life before "Big Bang"

This seminar at the Bank of England was chaired by Lord George of St Tudy and examined how the old gilt-edged market operated in practice post 1945.

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