Members of the LSE Financial History Group (FHG) are drawn from across LSE'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
Professor David Chambers
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
Dr Youssef Ghallada
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
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
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
Professor John Turner
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