Weekend of Mistakes 2025

We're delighted to announce that the celebrated Library of Mistakes will be back in residence at Hay Castle, 21st-23rd March 2025 Join historians, financial experts, investment sages for a wealth of wisdom, and enjoy a weekend of financial booms and busts, bubbles, swindles, panics and crashes.


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Below you can see the speakers from 2024

Alice Sherwood
Alice Sherwood

Alice Sherwood is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at The Policy Institute at King’s, and the author of the award-winning Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

Anja Shortland
Anja Shortland

Anja Shortland is a Professor in Political Economy at King's College London. She studied Engineering Science at Oxfordand her PhD in International Relations at LSE.

Sir Martin Donnelly
Sir Martin Donnelly

Martin Donnelly was Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Trade (DIT). Prior to that he was Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) for 6 years.

Chris Swinson
Chris Swinson

Visiting Fellow, Newcastle University Business School. Formerly Senior Partner, BDO Chartered Accountants and President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Edward Chancellor
Edward Chancellor

Edward Chancellor is the author of Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Farrar Straus/Macmillan, 1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

George Littlejohn
George Littlejohn

George Littlejohn is a chartered accountant, and senior adviser to the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. He was formerly a journalist with The Economist.

Helen Thompson
Helen Thompson

Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University.

Herman Brodie
Herman Brodie

Herman Brodie is the Founding Director of Prospecta, a consultancy that advises the world's leading financial institutions on behavioural finance and its applications.

Ian Fraser
Ian Fraser

Ian Fraser is ajournalist and author who has written for publications including The Economist, the Financial Times, The Times, The Herald and the Scotsman.

Jared Bibler
Jared Bibler

Jared Bibler studied engineering at MIT and later obtained his CFA charter. Mr Bibler started his career in Boston before moving to Reykjavik and later to Zurich.

Merryn Somerset Webb
Merryn Somerset Webb

Merryn Somerset Webb was founding editor of Moneyweek magazine in 2000. She remained at the magazine as Editor in Chief until late 2022.

Nick Butler
Nick Butler

Nick Butler is an energy economist and Visiting professor in the Policy Institute at Kings College London.

Oliver Bullough
Oliver Bullough

Oliver Bullough is an award-winning author and journalist from Hay, who writes about financial crime, kleptocracy and money laundering, often with a connection to the former Soviet republics.

Paul Greatbatch
Paul Greatbatch

Paul Greatbatch was a Partner & Portfolio Manager at Genesis Investment Management from 1994-2013, one the oldest specialist managers operating in Emerging Markets on behalf of large institutional clients

Paul Kosmetatos
Paul Kosmetatos

Dr Paul Kosmetatos is Lecturer of International Economic History at the University of Edinburgh. He specialises on financial crises and the rise and trials of Scottish banking. His work on the rise of the Scotch Whisky industry is a new direction for his research.

Philip Augar
Philip Augar

Philip Augar is an author and former investment banker. A PhD in History, he has been speaking, writing and broadcasting about the challenges of modern capitalism and banking for twenty two years.

Ray Perman
Ray Perman

Ray Perman was a financial journalist for over 30 years and also chief executive of the organisation which represents the finance sector in Scotland.

Russell Napier
Russell Napier

Russell Napier is author of The Solid Ground investment report for institutional investors and co-founder of the investment research portal ERIC- a business he now co-owns with D.C. Thomson.

Tamim Bayoumi
Tamim Bayoumi

Tamim Bayoumi is a visiting scholar at King's College London working on macroeconomics and international finance.

William Quinn
William Quinn

William Quinn is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Queen's University Belfast, where he teaches modules in Financial Technology and Financial Bubbles and Crises.

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