Hubert Bonin is Professor in Modern Economic History at Sciences Po Bordeaux and a member of the GRETHA research centre at Bordeaux University. He is a specialist in the history of service companies (in particular the Suez Canal Company, colonial and overseas trading houses and their maritime affiliates), in the strategic and cultural management of the organisation of firms, and in French banking history.
Paul Thomes has been a Professor at RWTH Aachen University School of Business and Economics since 1995. His research areas are economic and social history and the history of technology, in particular structural change and change management in regional and transnational perspective, business history, the history of mobility and financial services. He is Executive Editor of Bankhistorisches Archiv. Banking and Finance in History.