Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises

Youssef Cassis is Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, and Principal Investigator of the ERC funded research project on 'The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk'. From 2011 to 2019, he was Professor of Economic History at the European University Institute. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His most recent books include Private Banking in Europe: Rise, Retreat, and Resurgence (OUP, 2015). He has also recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History (OUP, 2016, with Richard Grossman and Catherine Schenk). He was a long serving member of the Academic Advisory Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History and past President (2005-2007) of the European Business History Association (EBHA). Catherine Schenk is Professor of Economic and Social History at University of Oxford. After completing her undergraduate and Masters degrees at University of Toronto in Economics, International Relations, and Chinese Studies, she completed her PhD at the London School of Economics. Since then she has held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Royal Holloway, University of London, and University of Glasgow. She has also been visiting professor at Nankai University, China, and Hong Kong University and she has spent time as a visiting researcher at the International Monetary Fund and at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research. She was 2019 Senior Lamfalussy Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements. She is Associate Fellow in international economics at Chatham House.

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