# Philip Augar

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'''Sir Philip Augar''' is a British author, and was an equities broker in the [City of London](/source/City_of_London), England for twenty years from the 1970s, first with NatWest and J. Henry Schroder, and was part of the team that negotiated the sale of Schroders investment bank to Citigroup.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/events/date/index.shtml?event=EV200910200002.xml&cat=allevents&radar=600|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226072621/http://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/events/date/index.shtml?event=EV200910200002.xml&cat=allevents&radar=600|archivedate=26 February 2012|website=Cambridge University Alumni Relations - Events|title=Judge Business School: Banking & Finance Special Interest Group Annual Dinner|date=27 November 2009}}</ref>
 
Augar holds a doctorate in history and was a visiting fellow at [Cranfield School of Management](/source/Cranfield_School_of_Management).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/dinamic-content/news/documents/forum0305.pdf|newspaper=forum - The monthly newsletter of Cranfield School of Management|title=Issue 142|date=March 2005}}</ref>

He was [knighted](/source/Knight_Bachelor) in the [2021 Birthday Honours](/source/2021_Birthday_Honours) for services to higher and further education policy after chairing the Post-18 Education and Funding Review.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63377|supp=y|page=B2|date=12 June 2021}}</ref>

==Works==
*[https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2009/04/rajan_roundtable_break_up_the " Rajan roundtable: Break up the banks", ''The Economist'', April 9th 2009]
*{{cite news| url=http://www.newstatesman.com/banking-and-insurance/2010/01/nationalised-banks-banking| title=National interests| work=The New Statesman| date=8 January 2010}}
*[http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/02/a_better_way_to_break_up_the_b.html "A Better Way to Break Up the Banks", ''Harvard Business Review'', February 4, 2010 ]
* ''The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of London's Investment Banks'' (Penguin, 2000)
* ''The Greed Merchants: How the Investment Banks Played the Free Market Game'' (Penguin, 2005).
* ''Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade'', Bodley Head 2009 (also published by Vintage Books as ''Reckless: The Rise and Fall of the City, 1997-2008'')
* “The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market” (Allen Lane, 2018).

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