OFFICERS


President:
Professor Per Boje (Email: boje@hist.sdu.dk)

Vice-President:
Professor Albert Carreras (Email: albert.carreras@upf.edu)

Secretary:
Professor Raymond Stokes (Email: R.Stokes@socsci.gla.ac.uk)

Treasurer:
Dr. Andrea Schneider (Email: ahschneider@unternehmensgeschichte.de)


Other Council Members:

Prof. Dr. Youssef Cassis, University of Geneva, Switzerland (Email: youssef.cassis@histec.unige.ch)
Prof. Dr. Ludovic Cailluet, University of Toulouse, France (Email: ludovic.cailluet@univ-tlse1.fr)
Prof. Dr. Andrea Colli, Bocconi University, Italy (Email: andrea.colli@uni-bocconi.it)
Prof. Dr. Joost Dankers, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (Email: Joost.Dankers@let.uu.nl)
Prof. Dr. Margarita Dritsas, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece (Email: Mdritsas@ath.forthnet.gr)
Ass. Prof. Dr. Susanna Fellmann, University of Helsinki, Finland (Email: susanna.fellman@helsinki.fi)
Prof. Dr. Harm G. Schroeter, University of Bergen, Norway (Email: harm.schroter@hi.uib.no)
Prof. Dr. John Wilson, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom (Email: j.wilson37@sky.com)


Each Council member serves a four (4) year period.

President and Vice-President = 2 years


Past Presidents:
Prof. Tony Slaven, University of Glasgow, UK
Prof. Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, USA
Prof. Franco Amatori, Bocconi University, Italy
Prof. Keetie Sluyterman, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Prof. Mary Rose Lancaster University, UK
Prof. Youssef Cassis, University of Geneva, Switzerland



WHO IS WHO ?

PRESIDENT Per Boje , University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Per Boje is Professor of Industrial and Business History and Director of the Centre of Industrial and Business History at the University of Southern Denmark. Experience from research administration and editorial work, including editorship of Scandinavian Economic History Review. Has published mainly on Danish business history, including books on trade, management, industrial leaders, multinationals, competition laws, and industrial firms. Has recently finished a manuscript on Danish trade relations to the East bloc after WWII and is presently working on a book on the business history of Denmark 1750-2000.


Vice-President Albert Carreras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Albert Carreras (PhD, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1983) is Professor of Economic History and Institutions at the Department of Economics and Business of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( Barcelona ). He was Professor at the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute ( Florence ). He has published on Spanish and Italian industrialisation, on Spanish historical statistics, on Spanish nineteenth and twentieth century economic history, and on European transport networks. His main current business history research interests (mainly co-authored with Xavier Tafunell) are in the history of Spanish big business and in business performance in a comparative perspective. He has been co-organiser (with Matthias Kipping) of the EBHA 2004 Conference.


Treasurer Andrea H. Schneider, Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte

Andrea Schneider has been Managing Director of the Society for Business History (Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte) since 1996. She studied Contemporary History at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated in 1996 with her thesis on “Helmut Schmidt and the Great Koalition, 1966-1969”. She has published several books and papers in the field of business history, focusing on German state owned enterprises from 1920s to the 1970s, especially in electrictiy and aluminum. She has also worked on various banks, including the Rentenbank, the Ausfuhrkreditanstalt (AKA), the Bankhaus Metzler and the Kreditanstalt für Verkehrsmittel (Diskont und Kredit AG). Andrea Schneider has also coordinated a wide range of projects organised by the Society for Business History, for example Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich’s “Frankfurt as a finanical centre” (1999), and Harold James’s “History of the Association of German Banks” (2001), e.g. Since 1996 she has been on the editorial staff of the Journal of Business History (Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte).


Secretary Raymond Stokes, University of Glasgow, UK

Raymond Stokes was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ray Stokes has held the established Chair of Business History in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow since February 2005, and the Directorship of the Centre for Business History in Scotland since November of the same year. He joined the Department in 1995, moving from the post of Associate Professor (with tenure) of History in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York), where he had taught since 1987. He has also taught at the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) and at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio). He has published three single-authored monographs (Divide and Prosper, University of California Press, 1988; Opting for Oil, Cambridge University Press, 1994 [paperback edition, 2006]; and Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). More recently, he has co-authored three additional books (The Chemistry must be right, Edition Leipzig, 2001 [German edition, 2000]; Faktor Öl, Beck, 2003; and German Industry and Global Enterprise, Cambridge University Press, 2004 [German edition, 2002].

With a long-time teaching interest in comparative history of business and technology, he is now starting a number of comparative research projects, including one on the waste management industry in the United Kingdom and Germany, and one on the history of foreign direct investment in Scotland in comparative perspective. Stokes is also the co-editor of the Routledge International Studies in Business History and a member of the council of the Association of Business Historians.


NEWSLETTER EDITOR Andrea Colli, Bocconi University, Milan , Italy

Andrea Colli is Associate Professor in Economic History at the Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milam. He is author of Legami di Ferro (1998) he also co-authored with Franco Amatori Impresa e industria in Italia dall'Unita ad oggi (1999) and I volti di Proteo (2002) -a history of Italian small business as well as his recent History of Family Business 1870-2000 (Cambridge 2003).


OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS:

Youssef Cassis, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Youssef Cassis is professor for economic and social history at the University of Geneva and Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is director of the European research program "The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century". Professor Cassis is co-founder of the Financial History Review (Cambridge University Press), member of the editorial board of Contemporary European History, Entreprises et Histoire, and Enterprise and Society. Youssef Cassis was president of the European Business History Association from 2005-2007.

Ludovic Cailluet, University of Toulouse, France

Ludovic Cailluet is Associate Professor in International management and strategy at the Graduate School of Management of Toulouse Social Sciences University where he is in charge of the Msc. in International Management an. He also serves as International officer for the school.

Born in 1966 in Paris Ludovic Cailluet holds a Doctorate in economic history from the University of Lyon.He was awarded a Bourse Lavoisierof the French Foreign Affairs and the best dissertation award of the EBHA in 1996. After two years as a research fellow and lecturer at Center for International Business History at the University of Reading (UK) he joined in 1998 the University of Toulouse Graduate School of Management (IAE).

He has researched and published on the history of the international aluminum industry, the international transfer of management methods and the impact of foreign direct investment on French firms.

Ludovic Cailluet is a member of the Business History Conference and of the European group for organisation studies (EGOS). He serves as Book review board member, Business History Review, Editorial board member Entreprises et Histoire and Ad'hoc reviewer for Enterprise and Society.


Joost Dankers, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Joost Dankers is associate professor at Utrecht University where he heads a large research group of business historians. Since 1991 he has published widely with major studies of Dutch companies such as Hoogovens in steelmaking, in the glass industry, on financial institutions like the co-operative Rabobank, and on savings banks. Currently he is involved in the major research programme "Business in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century " (BINT).His contribution is a project on cartelisation and concentration, together with Bram Bouwens. He works in The Institute for History and Culture of Utrecht University where he is responsible for attracting and directing externally funded projects in a very competitive environment.

Joost Dankers has been a member of EBHA since it began in 1994, and has been an active participent in its conferences. He has much experience to bring to promoting the development of EBHA.


Margarita Dritsas, Hellenic Open University, Greece

Margarita Dritsas is professor of European Economic and Social History, at the Hellenic Open University in Patras, Greece. Her fields of research are business and banking history, as well as history of tourism. Her most recent publications include:

Trapeza Ergasias 1975-2000. He Trapeza me tis Anoiktes Portes (The Ergasias Bank 1975-2000. The Bank with ‘Open Doors’), Athens 2006;
European Tourism and Culture. History and National Perspectives. (Bilingual publication. (Editing), Athens 2007;
Emporiki Trapeza tis Hellados, 1907-2007 Enallages taftotitas and Metaschimatismoi. (Emporiki Bank of Greece 1907-2007. Identity Changes and transformation), Athens 2008.


Susanna Fellman, University of Helsinki, Finland

Dr. Susanna Fellman is professor (acting) of economic history at the Department of Social Science History at University of Helsinki. Her main research interest lies within the field of business history, particularly the history of management. She has also recently worked on labour market issues and cartels.

John Wilson, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom

John Wilson is Professor of International Business at Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire, and Director of the Institute of International Business. While specialising in the study of international business, he is working hard to embed business and management history in the business school curriculum. As well as being an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School, John has also been a Visiting Professor at Osaka University in Japan, and spent periods working in Brazil. He has been President of the Association of Business Historians (1997-98; 2005-07), as well as Council member of the Business History Conference. More recently, he has become chair of the management and business history Track at the British Academy of Management.

In 2004, he succeeded Geoffrey Jones as co-editor (with Charles Harvey) of Business History. His recent publications include an edited collection (with Andrew Popp) on English Industrial Districts (Ashgate, 2003) and a book on “The Making of Modern Management” (Oxford University Press, 2006).