the world of private banking

Notes on Contributors
Melanie Aspey joined the Rothschild Archive as archivist in 1994, succeeding
Victor Gray as director in 2004. Aspey edited The Rothschild archive: Guide to
the Collection (London, 2000) and has written about aspects of the Archive’s
collection and Rothschild history for a number of journals and publications. Prior
to joining Rothschild, she was archivist and records manager at News International
plc (publisher of The Times and other British daily and weekly newspapers) and
worked for the Business Archives Council, subsequently serving as a trustee and
chairman of that organization for a number of years.
Youssef Cassis is professor of economic and social history at the University of
Geneva and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. He has published
extensively on banking and financial history. His latest book, Capitals of Capital:
A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005, was published in 2006
by Cambridge University Press.
Philip L. Cottrell is professor of economic and social history at Leicester
University. He has published widely in the areas of international financial, business,
economic and social history.
Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of history at Harvard University
and William Ziegler Professor of business administration at Harvard Business
School. He is also a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University,
and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His book The
World’s Banker: the History of the House of Rothschild (1998) won the Wadsworth
Prize for Business History. He is also the author of The Cash Nexus: Money and
Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000 (2001) and numerous other books and
articles.
Monika Pohle Fraser is an economic historian (D.Phil., European University
Institute) and currently a post-doctorate fellow at the Forum for Contemporary
History, University of Oslo. She also teaches political and social science courses
at State University New York/FIT, Florence. She is currently working on Cold
War development aid and European donor countries. Her field of interest and
publications are mainly in international financial history of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.
Victor Gray has taken a leading role in the development of archives in the UK,
acting as Chairman of the National Council on Archives and a founder Board