Massimiliano Affinito is an economist at the Economic Research Department of the Bank of Italy. His major fields of interest are banking, comparative financial systems, and applied economics. He has published extensively on financial intermediation, including in international journals, and has co-authored two books, on the Italian banking system and on the Italian privatization process in the nineties respectively.
Alexander Apostolides is an economist with a Ph.D. in economic history from the LSE London School of Economics; his thesis was on the estimation of the GDP of Cyprus and Malta for the period 1921-38. His interest in the EABH conference Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean arose through his research on the Ionian Bank’s activities in Cyprus. His main academic interests are in small island economies and their financial markets. He is currently working on the effects of market entries by banks and how they affect the banks’ future performance.
Paola Avallone is an economist with a Ph.D. in economic history. She has been a fellow at Valladolid University (Spain), the International Institute of Economic History F. Datini, Prato (Italy) and Siena University (Italy). She has worked for the Italian National Research Council as Director of Research. Her publications include books and articles on banking and financial history and the economic history of Southern Italy.
Michael C. Bonello was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Malta on 1 October 1999. Prior to his appointment as Governor, Mr Bonello was a senior official at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. Between 1983 and 1999 he served in various capacities, among them Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the International Trade Division, Chief of the Policy Clearance Unit, Advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General and Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary-General. Mr Bonello is a member of the Governing and General Councils of the European Central Bank, a Fellow of the Institute of Financial Services and a member of the Board of Governors of the Malta Financial Services Authority.
Gérard Chastagnaret is a professor at the University of Provence, an agrégé in history and alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His thesis was published under the title L’Espagne puissance minière dans l’Europe du XIXe siècle (Madrid, 2000). He has been assistant in the Faculté des Lettres of Rabat (1969-71) and member of the Casa de Velázquez (1971-74). He has taught at the University of
Provence since 1974. From 2001 to 2006 he was director of the Casa de Velázquez. He created and directed the CNRS-Université de Provence laboratory TELEMME (Temps, Espaces, Langages Europe Méridionale – Méditerranée). Chastagnaret was awarded the Philip Morris Prize (geo-history). He is a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española de Ciencias Morales y Políticas. He has published 12 books, authored or edited, and over 70 articles or contributions.
John A. Consiglio, Ph.D., after a 42-year professional career in banking, now lectures on Banking Regulation and European Banking in the Faculty of Economics, Management & Accountancy, and on European Banking in the European Documentation & Research Centre, of the University of Malta. His main research interests are in the areas of European banking, monetary history, and economics. He is the author of A History of Banking in Malta (Progress Press Co. Ltd.), Ekonomija ghal-Kulhadd – Economics for All (Klabb Kotba Maltin), Privatisation of Financial Services in the CEECs (UoM), Bank Soundness & Macroeconomic Policy in the EU CCs (Jean Monnet Study Series, University of Malta), and other articles in professional journals.
Catherine Dardignac Société Générale, Paris, is a graduate of Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, France (1999), and also studied archive and records management at Université de Montréal, Canada (1998-99). She first worked at Banque de France’s Archives department (1999-2001), before joining Société Générale Group in 2001. She worked as an archivist for the historical archives department, and was head of this department from 2005 to July 2008. She is now in charge of management of information and documentation for SG’s French retail banking activity.
Riccardo De Bonis is Head of the Monetary and Financial Statistics Division at the Economic Research Department of the Bank of Italy. His fields of interest are banking, financial systems, economic statistics, and financial regulation. He has been a member of various high-level working groups at the ECB and the OECD. He has published in Italian and international journals and is the author of an introductory book on banking. He edited a volume of essays on financial accounts as part of a Bank of Italy research project.
Juan Carlos Martínez Oliva is a Principal Director at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy. He was Visiting Professor at the universities of Roma, Genova, and Perugia, and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He was Economic Advisor to the Board of the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of many contributions in the fields of international economics and economic history. He has recently collaborated with the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance on the preparatory work for the G8 Summit Meeting at L’Aquila.
Edhem Eidem is a professor at the Department of History of Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. He has organized the archives of the Imperial Ottoman Bank and has set up a museum retracing the history of the institution. He has published extensively on the history of the bank and on aspects of late Ottoman social history based on information derived from the clientele and staff records preserved in the archives. His publications include Banque Impériale Ottomane. Inventaire commenté des archives (1994), A 135-Year-Old Treasure. Glimpses from the Past in the Ottoman Bank Archives (1998), Banknotes of the Imperial Ottoman Bank (1863-1914) (1999), A History of the Ottoman Bank (1999).
Athanasios (Sakis) Gekas is Assistant Professor teaching Modern Greek and Mediterranean History at York University, Toronto. He has published articles on the economic and social history of the Ionian Islands under British rule and is currently completing a history of the Ionian State. Recent publications include: ‘Class and Cosmopolitanism. The Historiographical Fortunes of Merchants in Eastern Mediterranean Ports’, in Mediterranean Historical Review, 24, 2, 2009, pp. 95-113; ‘Credit, Bankruptcy and Power in the Ionian Islands under British Rule, 1815’, in K. Gratzer and D. Stiefel (eds), History of Insolvency and Bankruptcy from an International Perspective, Södertörn Academic Studies, 38, 2008, pp. 83-118.
Giovanni Lombardi has a degree in Modern Letters, a degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Economic History. His main research interests are the social and economic history of the Kingdom of Naples, focusing on entrepreneurs and the foreign community, corporative experiences and credit issues in early modern times. Publications include a history of printing in Naples and several biographies of presidents of the Italian Chambers of Commerce (1862-1944). Recently he has done work on Tourism and Cultural Heritage with attention to history, identity, social memory, community development and networking in the Mediterranean area. He is a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) – Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies.
Juan Carles Maixé-Altés is currently a senior lecturer in economic history at the University of A Coruña, working on financial and banking history, and food trade. He was European Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow (2005) and Visiting Researcher at the University of Leicester (2009). Recent articles include ‘Domestic Monetary Transfers and the Inland Bill of Exchange Markets in Spain, 1775-1885’, Journal of International Money and Finance, 28, 3, 2009, pp. 496-521 (with E. Iglesias); and ‘Enterprise and Philanthropy. The Dilemma of Scottish Savings Banks in the Late Nineteenth Century’, Accounting, Business & Financial History, 19, 1, 2009, pp. 39-59.
Pablo Martín-Aceña is Professor of Economics and Economic History at the University of Alcalá (Madrid), President of the Spanish Economic History Association, former editor of the Revista de Historia Económica, and visiting scholar at the Karl Marx University of Economics (Budapest), Harvard University (Boston, Mass.), Leuven University (Leuven, Belgium), El Colegio de México (Mexico DF), Paris X-Nanterre and Science Politiques in Paris. His publications includes The Economic Development in Spain since 1870, with J. Simpson (London, 1995), and Monetary Standards in the Periphery, with Jaime Reis (New York, London, 2000). He has also published articles in the Journal of European Economic History and the Financial History Review as well as in various Spanish academic journals.
Roger Nougaret graduated from Ecole nationale des Chartes in Paris in 1982. After working as a curator at the French National Archives (1982-1991), he was archivist at Crédit Lyonnais (1991-2004) as well as Secretary of the Board (20032004). Since 2005, he has been Group Archivist at Crédit Agricole SA (including the subsidiary Crédit Lyonnais), and Head of Crédit Agricole SA’s Sponsorship and Archives from 2009 on. Currently, he is a member of EABH’s Academic Advisory Council and of the Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques. Editor of Guide des archives des entreprises et organismes du Monde du Travail (Paris, 1998) and co-editor of Le Crédit lyonnais. Etudes historiques (Geneva, 2003).
Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou is Assistant Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economics at Athens University of Economics and Business. She has co-edited (with Ina Baghdiantz McCabe and Gelina Harlaftis) Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks. Four Centuries of History (Berg, 2005); and (with Youssef Cassis), Entrepreneurship in Theory and History (Palgrave, 2005); and Country Studies in Entrepreneurship. A Historical Perspective (Palgrave, 2006). She has published articles in international academic journals and was awarded in 2003 a prize by the Ottoman Bank Archive for an article on Greek Diaspora Bankers.
Joseph C. Sammut is an internationally recognized collector of Maltese coins and an authority on the history of coinage in Malta. He is a member of the Currency Advisory Board and a numismatic consultant to the Central Bank of Malta. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society (London) in 1957. His many contributions to Maltese history include Currency in Malta (1968, 1998, 2001), Currency Notes in Malta (1977), From Scudo to Sterling (1992), Mit-Tetradrachm ghall-Euro (2009). Jointly with Count Felice Restelli della Fratta he wrote The Coinage of the Knights in Malta now recognized as the standard work on the subject for collectors and numismatic dealers. Mr Sammut is a Commendatore and a Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and of Malta. In 2006 he was conferred with the membership of the National Order of Merit by the Government of Malta.
Gabriel Tortella (Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin, and Doctor in Law, Universidad Complutense, Madrid) is Professor of Economic History emeritus at the Universidad de Alcalá. He received the King Juan Carlos Economics Prize in 1994 and he has served as President of the International Economic History Association and the Spanish Economic History Association, and as Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking History. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, London, and the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Vienna. Among his many publications, recent books include The Development of Modern Spain (Cambridge Mass., 2000); The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization, with R. Sylla and R. Tilly (Cambridge, 1999); and Los Orígenes del Siglo XXI (Madrid, 2005).
Maria Teresa Tortella has been Head of the Archives and Numismatic Service of the Bank of Spain from 1978 to March 2009. She graduated in History from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 1962. Having worked for the National Archives in Madrid from 1974 to 1977, she joined the Banco de España as Head of the Historical Archives in 1978 and was appointed Head of the Numismatic Service in 1990. Tortella became a member of the ICA Business Archives Committee in 1983 and of the ICA/SBL Steering Committee in 1990. She was also a member of the EABH Academic Advisory Council from 1989 to 2007 (Vice Chair 1993 to 1998). Her publications include Los primeros billetes españoles. Las ‘Cédulas’ del Banco de San Carlos 1782-1829 (1997); A Guide to Sources of Information on Foreign Investment in Spain 1780-1914 (2000); Spanish Banknotes 1940-2001 (2004); Spanish Banknotes 1874-1939 (2005). She is currently working on her next book: El Banco de España desde dentro, a domestic history of the Bank of Spain.
Nuno Valério is currently professor of Economic History at ISEG (Institute of Economics and Management) of UTL (Technical University of Lisbon). He has edited a collection of Portuguese Historical Statistics, 2 volumes (Lisbon, 2001), and is the author of a book on The Escudo – The Portuguese Currency Unit 19112001 (Lisbon, 2001) and co-author of a History of the Portuguese Banking System, 2 volumes (Lisbon, 2006-10).