Biographical information

I am a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economic History of the London School of Economics and Political Science. I will be teaching business history in the MSc programmes of the school's Department of Management from October.

My research interests lie in the fields of economic and financial history, money and banking, applied industrial organisation, and historical geographic information systems. My thesis looks at the performance of early cooperatively-owned microfinance institutions operating in the Netherlands during the financial crisis of the 1920s.

I completed a BSc in economics at the University of Bristol in 2005 and an MSc in economic history at the LSE in 2006. I was then employed as an economist at the Office of Fair Trading for a year until 2007. 

I was a visiting student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona in the spring and summer of 2008 and at Universiteit Utrecht in the autumn and winter of 2009. 

I co-run the LSE Cliometrics Group. I have occasionally written comment pieces for The Guardian.

News

6 July 2010: My presentation schedule for the summer: the European Business History Association (27 August), Universiteit Antwerpen (2 September), Rural History (14 September), Economic History Association (24 September). 

4 May 2010: The French magazine La Vie des Ideés published a short article by Tim Leunig on the decline of manufacturing and its regional consequences for the UK. I helped prepare the data for this article, calculating regional Gross Value Added Gini coefficients. The article can be viewed here.

25 January 2010: I am presenting a work-in-progress paper entitled 'God and risk: Religious banking in two rural Dutch communities in the early twentieth century' at the Business History Seminar at Erasmus University Rotterdam on 1 February and at the LSE's Business History Unit Seminar on 15 February.

4 Jan 2010: I have uploaded the paper I plan to present at the Economic History Society this March. It can be viewed here. A press release is available here.

18 Dec 2009: My paper on measuring interbank competition has just been published in the Blackwell-Wiley journal Oxonomics: Oxford University Economic Studies. It can be viewed here.