“November 23, 2016 – Eight years on, the legacy of the financial crisis continues to reverberate, in economics and politics. How did it happen? What lessons can we learn? The winner of this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, Sebastian Mallaby‘s The Man Who Knew, adds to the debate by recounting the pivotal role played by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. The award was presented on Tuesday night at a ceremony at the National Gallery in London by Financial Times editor Lionel Barber and Vivian Hunt, managing partner of our United Kingdom and Ireland office. Vivian describes The Man Who Knew as “marrying the biographer’s humanizing touch with a fascinating inside look at how policy decisions are actually reached in the real world….”