Members of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Financial History Group (FHG) are drawn from across ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳'s academic departments, reflecting the interdisciplinarity of the group.
Professor Oliver Accominotti
Director of FHG
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: history of the money market; the microstructure of the global financial system; financial crises and their propagation; foreign exchange market; sovereign defaults
Email: o.accominotti@lse.ac.uk
Dr Pamfili Antipa
Fellow, Department of Economic History
Research interests: financial and monetary history, central banking, interactions between monetary and fiscal policy, political economy, history of public finances
Email: p.antipa@lse.ac.uk
Dr Gerben Bakker
Associate Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: the historical analysis of the interaction between markets, industries, firms and strategies, and their impact on economic growth and development.
Email: g.bakker@lse.ac.uk
Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: portfolio management, Information Asymmetry, Alternative Investing, Art Market, Long-run performance of assets, past financial crises
Email: l.bicalho-ritzkat@lse.ac.uk
Professor Youssef Cassis
Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: the history of financial elites, financial centres, and financial crises. Currently leading an ERC funded research project on “The memory of financial crises. Financial actors and global risk (MERCATOR)”.
Email: y.cassis@lse.ac.uk
Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History / Invesco Professor of Financial History, Cambridge
Research interests: Financial market history including long-run asset returns, long-term investing, and historical development of capital markets and asset management
Email: adc53@cam.ac.uk
Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth
Professor, Department of International Relations
Research interests: Political consequences of financial crises and financialization; Politics of climate-related risks to financial stability and household wealth
Email: j.m.chwieroth@lse.ac.uk
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Monetary regimes, international trade, financial intermediation, trade finance, ICT development, 19th century monetary and financial history
Email: youssef.ghallada@uclouvain.be
Professor Charles Goodhart
Emeritus Professor, Department of Finance
Research interests: Central banking, financial regulation, monetary policy. I am interested in both current and historical issues of all these.
Email: caegoodhart@aol.com
Aristeidis Grivokostopoulos
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Monetary and fiscal history of Greece, the Balkans and Southern Europe, before WWI.
Email: a.grivokostopoulos@lse.ac.uk
Dr Tehreem Husain
ESRC Fellow, Department of Economic History
Research interests: infrastructure finance, railways, sovereign debt, financial history, networks, text analysis
Email: t.husain@lse.ac.uk
Dr Jason Lennard
Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: the macroeconomic and financial history of the United Kingdom since the Industrial Revolution.
Email: j.c.lennard@lse.ac.uk
Yangyang Liu
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Monetary and Banking History; Chinese Economic History; Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
Email: y.liu131@lse.ac.uk
Dr Nadia Matringe
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting
Research interests: comparative financial history of early modern Northern/Southern Europe; Accounting's role in the development of financial markets; History of organizational forms; History of management thought
Email: n.matringe@lse.ac.uk
Dr James Morrison
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations
Research interests: History of the global monetary order, particularly the British-led and American-led orders.
Email: j.a.morrison@lse.ac.uk
Dr Victoria Paniagua
Assistant Professor, Department of International Political Economy
Research interests: political economy, development, redistribution, inequality, interest group politics, state-building
Email: v.paniagua@lse.ac.uk
Professor Joan Roses
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Long-run economic growth, rural credit markets, mortgage markets, credit markets integration.
Email: j.r.roses@lse.ac.uk
Dr Sabine Schneider
Fellow, Department of Economic History
Research interests: International economic history, financial crises, monetary policy, currency unions, history of political economy and economic thought (19th and 20th centuries)
Email: s.a.schneider@lse.ac.uk
Ziyue (Zoey) Shen
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Chinese Monetary History from 960–1911, covering topics including decentralized finance and multiple uses of currencies.
Email: z.shen19@lse.ac.uk
Charles Smith
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: the Great Crash and Great Depression.
Email: c.l.smith@lse.ac.uk
David Teeters
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: early modern capital market structure, history of safe assets, government bond markets, British household capital formation and balance sheets.
Email: d.j.teeters@lse.ac.uk
Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History / Professor, Queen's Business School (QBS)
Research interests: banking, business, economic, and financial history
Email: j.turner@qub.ac.uk
Dr Niccolò Valmori
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economic History
Research interests: history of capitalism, history of financial crises, business elites, prosopographic business studies, banking history.
Email: n.valmori@lse.ac.uk
Dr Oliver Bush
Senior Policy Advisor, Bank of England
Dissertation title: Did monetary policymakers step on a rake? A study of monetary-fiscal interactions in the British Great Inflation
Completion year: 2024
Research interests: monetary, fiscal and financial history
Email: oliver.bush@bankofengland.co.uk
Assistant Professor, University of Barcelona
Dissertation title: 'Escaping' the Great Depression: monetary policy, financial crises, and banking in Spain, 1919-1935
Completion year: 2019
Research interests: central banking, financial crises, political economy of finance
Email: enriquejorgesotelo@ub.edu