Organisation

There is an academic committee, which examines the abstract and panel proposals and puts together the programme for the conference. It will meet in January 2004.

Decissions will be announced by 1 February 2004. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to provide detailed explanations about the decision in each case.

Following is some biographical information for the members of the committee:

_Albert Carreras
is Professor in Economic History and Institutions in the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he teaches Business and Economic History. He has published on Spanish and Italian industrialisation, on Spanish historical statistics and on European transport networks. His main current business history research interests are in the history of Spanish big business and business performance in a comparative perspective. He has been member of the EBHA Council from 1996 to 2000. He is one of the local organisers of the 2004 Conference.

_Andrea Colli
is Associate Professor in the Economic History Institute at Università Bocconi (Milan) where he teaches Business and Economic History. His main research interests are the history of small and family business and the evolution of corporate governance structures in a comparative perspective. He is currently a member of the EBHA Council and was among the organisers of the Terni EBHA conference in 1998.

_Francisco Comín
is Professor of Economic History at the University of Alcalá (Madrid) where he teaches the subjects of Economic History and History of the Public Sector. He has published several books and articles on the history of the Treasury in Spain and in Europe, and also on business history, in particular the history of public firms and privatisations. He was awarded the National Prize for History in 1990. He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Secretary General of the Spanish Association of Economic History, and member of the EBHA Council.

_Paloma Fernández
is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Economic History and Economic Institutions at Universitat de Barcelona, where she teaches World Economic History and Spanish Economic History. Her current research interests are family business, business and gender, and metalworking industries in Spain in a European historical context (19th-20th centuries). She is a member of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, the Spanish Economic History Association, and the EBHA.

_Matthias Kipping
is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he teaches Business History, History of Management Thought and Business Strategy. His main research interests are the transfer of management knowledge in historical and comparative perspective as well as business-government relations. He was the first Editor of the EBHA Newsletter and a member of the EBHA Council from 1997 to 2003. He is one of the local organisers of the 2004 Conference.

_Mary Rose
is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development at Lancaster University Management School. She teaches business and economic history and innovation. Her research interests lie in comparative analysis of network family business and textiles and most recently the business history of leisure. She was on the interim Council, which established the EBHA and has been on Council since 2000 and becomes President in 2003.