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THE WORLD OF PRIVAtE BANKING<br />
Member <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Museums Libraries and Archives Council. He is currently President<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Society <strong>of</strong> Archivists. An archivist throughout his working life, he joined<br />
and developed <strong>the</strong> Rothschild Archive from 1993, becoming <strong>the</strong> first Director <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> Rothschild Archive Trust in 2000. He retired from Rothschild in 2004.<br />
Martin Körner † was pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> early modern history at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Bern,<br />
where he directed <strong>the</strong> research project ‘Bernese state finance in <strong>the</strong> early modern<br />
period’. His many publications include Solidarités financiers suisses au XVIème<br />
siècle (Lausanne, Payot, 1980) and ‘The Swiss Confederation’, in R. Bonney (ed.),<br />
The Rise <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fiscal State in Europe c.1200–1815 (Oxford, 1999).<br />
Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryck is pr<strong>of</strong>essor emeritus <strong>of</strong> Université Libre de<br />
Bruxelles and member <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Royal Academy <strong>of</strong> Belgium. Former dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
Faculty <strong>of</strong> Arts and president <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Institute <strong>of</strong> European Studies, she promoted<br />
<strong>the</strong> Groupe d’Histoire du Patronat de l’U.L.B. She is <strong>the</strong> editor <strong>of</strong> Dictionnaire des<br />
patrons en Belgique: Les hommes, les entreprises, les réseaux (1996), author <strong>of</strong><br />
Léopold II et les groupes financiers belges en Chine (Brussels, 1972), Rail, finance<br />
et politique: les entreprises Philippart (1865–1890) (Brussels, 1982), Gouverner<br />
la Générale de Belgique: Essai de biographie collective (Bruxelles, 1996), and<br />
co-author <strong>of</strong> The Generale Bank (Brussels, 1997) and A History <strong>of</strong> European<br />
Banking (Antwerp, 2000). Her publications concern Belgian economic and social<br />
history as well as international relations <strong>of</strong> Belgium during <strong>the</strong> nineteenth and<br />
twentieth centuries.<br />
David Kynaston was born in 1951 and read Modern History at New College,<br />
Oxford. He has been a pr<strong>of</strong>essional historian since 1973. His principal work is a<br />
four-volume history <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> City <strong>of</strong> London, 1815–2000, published between 1994<br />
and 2001. He has also written histories <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Financial Times, Cazenove and<br />
LIFFE, as well as co-writing a history <strong>of</strong> Phillips & Drew. With Richard Roberts<br />
he has co-edited a history <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bank <strong>of</strong> England and co-written a book on <strong>the</strong><br />
modern City. His latest publication is Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 (2007). He is<br />
a visiting pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Kingston University.<br />
Dr John Orbell was formerly Head <strong>of</strong> Corporate Information Services at ING Bank,<br />
London Branch, where, inter alia, he was responsible for The Baring Archive and<br />
ING’s London art collection. He retired in late 2004. He has published in <strong>the</strong> areas <strong>of</strong><br />
business archives and business history and is a fellow <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Royal Historical Society<br />
and <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Royal Society <strong>of</strong> Arts. He is currently updating his earlier publication,<br />
Tracing <strong>the</strong> History <strong>of</strong> a Business, and, with Francis Goodall and Richard Storey, is<br />
compiling an updated bibliography <strong>of</strong> British business histories.<br />
Edwin J. Perkins is emeritus pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> history, University <strong>of</strong> Sou<strong>the</strong>rn<br />
California. He earned his doctoral degree under Alfred Chandler at Johns Hopkins<br />
University in 1972. Previously, he had earned an MBA from <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong>