OFFICERS


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

Vice-President:
Harm C. Schroeter (Email: harm.schroter@ahkr.uib.no)

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

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




Other Council Members:

Per H. Hansen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Hubert Bonin, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France
Jost Dankers, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
John Wilson, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Margarita Dritsas, Hellenic Open University Patras, Greece
Francesca Polese, Bocconi University, Italy


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

President and Vice-President = 2 years


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





WHO IS WHO ?



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 industrialization, 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.

Vice-President Harm G. Schröter, University of Bergen, Norway

Harm G. Schröter is Professor of economic history at the Department of History at the University of Bergen, where he teaches since 1998. He also taught in Berlin, Freiberg, Hamburg, Köln, Kiel and at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His research interests lie in the european economic history and currently he is involved in a project on cartelization and concentration, together with Bram Bouwens, Joost Dankers, and others. Recently he published Winners and Loosers. Eine kurze Geschichte der Amerikanisierung, München 2008


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 Francesca Polese, Bocconi University, Italy

Francesca Polese is Assistant Professor in the Economic History Institute of Bocconi University, Milan. Her research concerns Italian business history, with a focus on the history of the fashion business considered both from the side of the industrial and organizational evolution of the sector, but also of consumer practices and culture. She teaches business history, economic history and history of the fashion business.She is member of the editorial board of “Enterprise and Society” and serves as a trustee of the Business History Conference. She has an active role in EBHA as member of the editorial board of the Newsletter (since 2003) and organizer (since 2003) and director (since 2009) of the Doctoral Summer School.


OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS:




Hubert Bonin, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France

Hubert Bonin is professor in modern economic history at Sciences Po Bordeaux and a member of the Gretha research centre at Bordeaux 4-Montesquieu University. He is a specialist of the history of service companies (Suez Canal company, colonial and overseas trading houses and their maritime affiliates) and moreover of French banking history (regional banks, Paris deposit, corporate and investment banks, about which he published several monographs and a few handbooks). He is writing a large history of Société générale (from 1864 to the 1940s) in several volumes (the first published in 2006), and preparing histories of the French global economy of investment banks and of the action of French banks in Asia and in Greece. As a specialist in business history, he has co-guided the research programs Ford in Europe (1903-2003) (published in 2003) and American Firms in Europe (published in 2008), and he is taking part in several programs in banking and business history from French, European, or Asian perspectives, especially about investment banking, merchant and trade banking, economic patriotism, entrepreneurship and, within the research program of the International Corporate Culture Association (Icca), European business. At the Bordeaux University, he is guiding the research of about a dozen PhD students, mainly from Central Europe and Africa. Hubert Bonin is a member of the Association française des historiens économistes and a member and treasurer of the Société française d’histoire des outre-mers. He is also a member of the academic advisory council of the European Association for Banking & Financial History, of the International Corporate Culture Association, of the Committee for the History of Societé générale, of the Committee for the History of Bnp Paribas, of the Committee for the History of Banque de France, and he has been a member of the Council of the European Business History Association (2000-2007). Further information, especially about Hubert Bonins publications can be found on his website: www.hubertbonin.com

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 cartelization and concentration, together with Bram Bouwens, Harm Schröter, and others. 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.

Per H. Hansen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Per H. Hansen is professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School and affiliated with the Centre for Business History . His primary research areas are economic history and business history, particularly financial institutions, central banks, monetary history, financial crises and regulation in the 19th and 20th centuries. A further research area is Danish modern furniture (20^th century).

Francesca Polese, Bocconi University, Italy

Francesca Polese is Assistant Professor in the Economic History Institute of Bocconi University, Milan. Her research concerns Italian business history, with a focus on the history of the fashion business considered both from the side of the industrial and organizational evolution of the sector, but also of consumer practices and culture. She teaches business history, economic history and history of the fashion business.She is member of the editorial board of “Enterprise and Society” and serves as a trustee of the Business History Conference. She has an active role in EBHA as member of the editorial board of the Newsletter (since 2003) and organizer (since 2003) and director (since 2009) of the Doctoral Summer School.


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).