After Dinner Speakers: Nick Leeson, Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Natasha Kaplinski

Nick Leeson was arrested in 1995 for bringing Barings Bank, the well established and well respected financial institution, to its proverbial knees. He then found himself in a Singapore jail serving a sentence for deceiving the auditors of Barings in a way "likely to cause harm to their reputation" and for cheating SIMEX (Singapore International Money Exchange).After his appointment as General Manager for Barings in Singapore, the cover up of a simple mistake by an inexperienced member of staff ended in a multi-million pound fraud, with earth shattering repersussions across the financial markets of the world.Nick's story, which is catalogued in his book Rogue Trader, is truly fascinating. He is becoming a very accomplished after dinner speaker.