Biographical note

Patricia Clavin is Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and a Professorial Fellow of Worcester College. She won the British Academy Medal for her landmark work on the League of Nations and the history of the political economy after 1918. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and serves on the editorial board of Past & Present. Giancarlo Corsetti is the Pierre Werner Chair and Professor of Economics at European University Institute. He previously taught at Cambridge University, where he was director of the Cambridge-INET institute. Before this, he taught at the Universities of Rome III, Yale and Bologna. He is a leading scholar in international economics and open macro with contributions on currency, financial and sovereign crises, and monetary and fiscal policy. He is a consultant at the European Central Bank and the Bank of England, and a regular visiting professor in central banks and international institutions. He is a fellow of the British Academy. Maurice Obstfeld is the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2015 through 2018, he served as Economic Counsellor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. During 2014 and 2015, he was a Member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. Prior to joining the economics department at Berkeley, he held faculty appointments at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a visiting appointment at Harvard. Adam Tooze is a Professor of History at Columbia University. He teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. His books have won him the Leverhulme prize fellowship, the H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize, the Longman History Today Prize, the Wolfson Prize and the LA Times History Prize. He was shortlisted for the Kirkus review, Duff Cooper and Hessel Tiltman prize and his books have featured in the book of the year lists of the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs and the Economist.