People
Members of the LSE Financial History Group (FHG) are drawn from across LSE's academic departments, reflecting the interdisciplinarity of the group.
Director of FHG
Professor, Department of Economic HistoryResearch 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
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
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
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, 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
Reader in Finance, Department of Finance
Research interests: systemic risk; financial risk; financial crisis
Email: j.danielsson@lse.ac.uk
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research Interests: Economic and financial history of Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries
Email: l.a.gardner@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
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
Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Business history, coroporate finance history, history of stock exchanges, corporate governance.
Email: lesliehannah@hotmail.com
ESRC Fellow, Department of Economic History
Research interests: infrastructure finance, railways, sovereign debt, financial history, networks, text analysis
Email: t.husain@lse.ac.uk
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
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
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests: economic growth, firm dynamics, financial intermediation, financial history
Email: j.olmstead-rumsey@lse.ac.uk
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
Associate Professor, Department of Economic History (on leave 2024-25)
Research interests: financial regulation and its history, accountability, transparency
Email: n.m.postel-vinay@lse.ac.uk
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: International finance and central banking, 1918-1970
Email: a.o.ritschl@lse.ac.uk
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
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
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: monetary policies of the Holy Roman Empire, Political Economy of the Holy Roman Empire
Email: o.j.volkart@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
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