Prof. Catherine R. Schenk: "The Evolution of the Global Payments System 1920-2000: a fresh approach to the history of (de)globalisation"

Professor Catherine R. Schenk FRHS FRSA is professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. After graduating from the University of Toronto, she completed her PhD in Economic History at the LSE. Since then she held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Royal Holloway, University of London, and University of Glasgow. She has also been visiting professor at Nankai University, China, and Hong Kong University.

Outside academia she has spent time as a visiting researcher at the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research. She is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Visiting Academic at the Bank of England. She has written several books and many articles on the evolution of international monetary and banking systems in the 20th century.

Her current ERC funded project is GloCoBank, which is charting the development of global correspondent banking from 1870-2000

Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 | Faculty of History, University of Oxford,