“I can only say that I am deeply sorry that our management – starting with me – was not more prescient and that we did not foresee what lay before us.”
– Chuck Prince, former CEO of Citigroup, Congressional testimony, 8 April 2010
“When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing.”
– Chuck Prince, CEO of Citigroup, interview with Financial Times, 10 July 2007
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Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
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