André Autheman
 Born
1923. Studied Law and Economics and joined Ottoman Bank in
1947. From 1948 to 1958 he worked for the Eastern area (Turkey,
Syria and Lebanon) and from 1959 for Paris. Between 1975-1986
he was General Director of Ottoman Bank and from 1980 to 1990
member of the Advisory Board.
In 1996, he published for the Comité pour l'histoire économique
et financière de la France La Banque Impériale Ottomane
(History of the bank from foundation to 1924).
Boris Barth
 Born
1961. Studied Modern History, Ancient History and Philosophy
at Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf. In 1989 gained his
master in Modern History and in 1993 Dr. phil. summa cum laude.
1990-1995 research assistant on a project about banking and
German foreign policy before World War I.
1990-1996 lecturer of Modern History at the Open University
Hagen, at the centres in Krefeld and Neuss.
1996-1999 assistant professor for Modern German History at
Charles University Prague, Institute for International Studies.
Major publications on
German Financial Imperialism before 1914, German Banking
in Latin America: European Financial Diplomacy, Economic Relations
between Germany and Czechoslovakia during the Inter-War Period,
German Portfolio Investments in Russia, German Perception
of the USA, Norway and the North in German Strategy.
Christopher Clay
 Has
taught Economic History at the University of Bristol since
1966. He has published in the field of English public finance
in the 17th century, English agrarian history in the 18th
century and the history of western banking in the Ottoman
Empire in the later 19th and early 20th centuries.
His interest in the Imperial Ottoman Bank stems in part from
his great-great-grandfather having been one of its founders
in 1863 and the first chairman of its London Committee. He
has undertaken research on its records in Istanbul, Paris
and London intermittently since 1983.
His book Western Bankers and Ottoman Finance, 1845-1881
is nearing completion.
Christian Manset
 Born
1941. Studied at l'Ecole Polytechnique, Institut d'Etudes
Politiques de Paris.
In 1965 he joined the Banque Paribas as Attaché de Direction.
1990-1998 member of the Management Board of the Banque de
Paribas and the Compagnie Financière de Paribas.
1996 vice-president of the Administration Board of the Banque
Paribas , hereafter de Paribas (1997-1998).
1997-1998 president of the Administration Board of the Banque
Parisbas Belgique. Now he is president of the Compagnie Financière
Ottomane, Vice-president of Paribas Suisse, Vice president
of Klépierre and administrator of Finaxa, Cobepa and Erbe
(Frère Group).
Çaglar Keyder
 PhD
in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
He taught at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara
until 1982. He is now Professor of Sociology at SUNY-Binghampton
and at the University of Istanbul.
His publications include Definition of a Peripheral Economy,
State and Class in Turkey and Istanbul between the Global
and the Local.
David M. Willliams
 A
graduate of the University of Liverpool, is Senior Lecturer
in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University
of Leicester.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. A member
of the executive councils of the International Commission
for Maritime History and the Society for Nautical Research,
he was, until December 1998, co-editor of the International
Journal of Maritime History. He has published widely in
the fields of business and commercial history with a particular
focus on the economics of shipping, government policy, maritime
labour and the organisation of commodity trades. Recent edited
volumes include the World of Shipping, 1997 and (jointly
with G. Jackson) Shipping, Technology and Imperialism,
1996.
Jacques Thobie
 Born
1929. Professor emeritus of History of Contemporary International
Relations at the University of Paris-VIII.
1969-1974 Maître de conférence d'Histoire Contemporaine at
the University Sorbonne and Paris-1/Panthéon-Sorbonne.
1974-1989 professor of the History of International Relations
with the Middle East at the University of Rennes-2, where
he also acted as vice-president from 1982 to 1986.
1986-1996 director of the Research Group NRS "Industrialisation
and new relationships with the Middle East after one century"
of CNRS.
1989-1991 professor of History of Contemporary International
Relations at the University of Paris-VIII.
1991-1994 director of the Institut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes
d'Istanbul.
1995 professor at the University of Galatasaray in Istanbul.
1995-1998 member of the Academic Advisory Council of the
Institut National des Langues and Civilisations orientales.
Recent publications
 La France
et L'Est méditerranéen depuis 1850;
économie,
finance, diplomatie, İstanbul 1993;
Système bancaire
turc et réseaux financiers internationaux (ortak çalışma)
1995;
Enjeux et
rapports de force en Turquie et en Méditerranée orientale
(ortak çalışma) 1996;
La Turquie
entre trois mondes (ortak çalışma) 1998.
Lorans Tanatar Baruh
 Born
1967. Bachelor of Arts at Bogaziçi University, 1990. Master
of Arts in History at Bogaziçi University, 1993.
Began to work as the assistant of Prof. Edhem Eldem in 1997
for the Ottoman Bank Historical Projects of the Economic and
Social Foundation of Turkey. Mainly involved in the organisation
of the archives, participated also in two different exhibitions
: in the coordination and documentation of « Traces of History,
Ottoman Bank Archives exhibition », 1997 and in the realisation
committee of « History in Cash. An exhibition of paper money
from Ottoman times to the present day », 1998. Since Septenmber
1998, has assumed the responsability of scientific manager
at the Ottoman Bank Historical Research Center.
Articles published
"At
the Turn of the Century, Textile Dealers in an International
Port City, Istanbul", Boğaziçi Journal, vol.11, no: 1-2,
İstanbul, 1997, s.33-52
Laurence
Ammour ile birlikte, "Çalışan Kadından Bir Kesit: Osmanlı
Bankası Kadın Personeli (1911-1934)", Tarih ve Toplum,
no: 183, İstanbul, Mart 1999, s.15-22.
Murat Çizakça
 Born
1946. Bachelor of Arts in economics at Leicester University
in Leicester, 1968. Master of Arts in Economic History at
University of Pennsylvania, 1974, PhD in Economics at the
University of Pennsylvania, 1978.
1975-1982 assistant professor of Economics and Economic History
at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
1982-1984 associate professor of Islamic Economics and Banking:
International Institute of Islamic Economics and Banking,
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
1985-1992 associate professor of Economics and Economic History,
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
Since 1992 full professor of Economics and Economic History,
Bogaziçi University.
Several visiting professorships. In 1997 he was recognized
as "internationally distinguished scholar" by the
Turkish Higher Education Council.
Selected publications
Türk
Finans Kesiminde Sorunlar ve Reform Önerileri (Problems
of the Turkish Financial Sector and Suggestions for Reform),
jointly with Tansu Çiller, Istanbul, I.S.O., 1989;
Risk Sermayesi,
Özel Finans Kurumlari ve Para Vakiflari (Venture Capital,
Islamics Banks and Cash Endowments), Istanbul, ISAV, Tartismali
Ilmi Toplantilar Dizisi no: 15, 1993;
A Comparative
Evolution of Business Partnerships: Islamic World and the
West, with Specific Reference to the Ottoman Archives,
1996.
Philip L. Cottrell
 Is
a professor of Economic History at the University of Leicester,
where he has been a staff member since 1972. Previously he
taught at the University of Liverpool, and has also been a
by-fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge (1981-82) and a visiting
professor, Nihon University, Tokyo in 1987.
He has acted in various capacities for the Economic and Social
Research Council since 1991 and, currently, is chair of the
Economic and Social History Panel for its Training Division.
He is Deputy-Chair of the Academic Advisory Board, European Association of Banking and Financial History e.V., and a co-founding editor
of Financial History Review, after having previously
edited Business Archives, Business History and
Journal of Transport History. He has published books
and articles on modern British and continental European financial
history and, in association with Youssef Cassis, is currently
producing a history of European private banking.
Sevket Pamuk
 Born
1950. Bachelor of Arts at Yale University, 1972. Master of
Arts in Economics at University of California at Berkeley,
1974. PhD in Economics at University of California at Berkeley,
1978.
He taught at the University of Ankara, University of Pennsylvania,
Villanova University, Princeton University, Middle East Technical
University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ben Gurion
University of Negev and is still teaching at Bogaziçi University.
He is associate member of Turkish Academy of Sciences, member
of executive committee of International Journal of Middle
East Studies and member of editorial board of European
Review of Economic History.
Selected publications
A Monetary
History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1918, Cambridge, 1999;
Osmanli
Imparatorlugu'nda Paranin Tarihi, Istanbul, 1999;
A History of the Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century
(Roger Owen ile birlikte), Londra, 1998;
The Ottoman
Empire and European Capitalism 1820-1913: Trade, Investment
and Production, Cambridge, 1987;
An Economic
History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1914, İstanbul,
1996.
Zafer Toprak
 Born
1946. Bachelor of Arts in International Relations at Ankara
University, 1969. Master of Arts in Area Studies at University
of London, 1971. PhD in Economics at University of London,
1981.
Professor of Economic and Social History at Bogaziçi University,
vice-chairman of the Economic and Social History Foundation
of Turkey, former director of Atatürk Graduate Institute at
Bogaziçi, he published over 150 articles on economic, social
and cultural history of both Ottoman and Republican Turkey
in the 19th and 20th centuries in Turkish, English, French
and German.
Selected publications
National
Economics in Turkey 1908-1918, (in Turkish), Ankara, 1982;
Agricultural
Structures in Turkey 1923-2000, (jointly with Sevket Pamuk,
in Turkish), Ankara, 1988;
Sümerbank:
An Institutional History, (in English and Turkish), Istanbul,
1990;
National
Economy-National Bourgeoisie, (in Turkish), Istanbul,1995;
The Union
and Progress and Statism, (in Turkish), Istanbul, 1995;
From Imperial
Debt to Global Offerings-The Rise of the Istanbul Stock Exchange,
(in English, French and Japanese), Istanbul, 1995;
A future
for a Past-Institutional History of Akbank, (in Turkish),
Istanbul, 1998.
Manfred Pohl
 Born
1944. Is director of the Deutsche Bank Historical Institute
in Frankfurt. He gained his PhD in history from the University
of Saarbrücken in 1972 and an honorary professorship from
the University of Frankfurt in 1992. His current offices and
honorary posts include the Member of the Managing Board of
the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte since 1976, and
Member of the Executive Committee of the International Archive
Council since 1996.
His publications include:
Das Bayernwerk
1921 bis 1996, Piper Verlag, 1996;
VIAG Aktiengesellschaft
1923-1998 (A. Schneider ile birlikte), Piper Verlag, 1998;
Die Strabag.
1923 bis 1998, Piper Verlag, 1998;
Die Lombardkasse
1923-1998, Piper Verlag, 1998.
Mete Basol
 Is
the Chairman & Chief Executive of Bankers Trust A.S. in
Istanbul.
Bachelor in Sciences in Economics at the Arizona State University
in 1980.
He began his career at Interbank in 1984 and held various
positions in the International and Project Finance Departments.
He joined the Türk Merchant Bank in 1988 (in 1997 the commercial
title of Türk Merchant Bank was changed to Bankers Trust A.S.).
He was the Board Manager and Deputy General Manager in charge
of Treasury and Capital Markets departments.
Thierry Walrafen
 After
graduation at the "ENA" in 1968 he joined the Ministère
de l'Economie et des Finances as "administrateur civil".
He had several tasks in the Direction de la prévision of this
ministry, including séjurns abroad.
1974-1976 in Beyruth as attaché financier for the Near and
Middle East,
1981-1984 conseiller financier at the French Embassy in Washington
DC and as executive director of the Interamerican Development
Bank,
1984-1992 as Ministre Plénipotentiaire, Conseiller financier
for Germany and The Netherlands in Bonn, Germany
Since 1992 he is member of the comité executif of the Caisse
des Dépôts et Consignations, he was 'directeur des affaires
européennnes et internationales' until his nomination as 'contrôleur
général' of Group CDC in November 1997.
Since 1996 he is in charge of the Revue d'Economie Financière.
Geoffrey Jones
 Is
professor of Business History at the University of Reading,
UK and Erasmus University in Rotterdam/The Netherlands. He
is a specialist in the history of international business,
particularly multinational banking and trading companies.
He is author or editor of many books and articles including
Banking and Empire in Iran, 1986; Planning and Power
in Iran (with Frances Bostock), 1989; British Multinational
Banking 1830-1990, 1993; Merchants to Multinationals,
forthcoming 2000. He is co-editor of the journal Business
History and president of the European Business History
Association.
Ilhan Tekeli
 Bachelor
of Arts in Civil Engineering, at Istanbul Technical University,
1960. Master of Science in City and Regional Planning at Middle
East Technical University, 1964. Master of Arts in Regional
Science at University of Pennsylvania, 1996. PhD in City Planning
at Istanbul Technical University, 1968.
Since 1970 he has been teaching in the City and Regional
Planning Department at the Middle East Technical University.
He has acted as visiting professor at several foreign universities.
He has also been a member of the consultancy committees of
several municipalities and organisations.
He is the founder and chair of the Economic and Social History
Foundation of Turkey and the founder and member of the Executive
Committee of the World Academy for Local Government and Democracy.
He has published extensively in the areas of city and regional
planning, planning theory, macro geography, geography of migration
and political behaviour, theory and history of local administration
in Turkey, urbanisation and urban policy, economic policy,
economic history of Turkey, history of cities and society
since 1964. His bibliography covers more than 50 books, 400
articles and conference papers published in several languages.
He has won several social sciences awards.
John Lampe
 PhD
in Economic European History, Economic History at the University
of Wisconsin, 1971.
1964-1967 he served at the American Embassies in Belgrade
and Sofia as a Foreign Service Officer.
1976-1980 he was editor of the comparative studies segment
of Southeastern Europe.
1980-1988 he held the adjunct chair of Balkan Area studies
at the Foreign Service of the Department of State.
1987-1997 he chaired the Russian Area Studies Programme on
campus and was director of the East European studies programme
of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in
Washington.
In 1997 he was appointed chair of the Department of History
at the University of Maryland.
Publications
Yugoslavia
as History, Twice there was a country, Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
He has edited and co-edited three other books, beginning
with Balkan Economic History 1550-1959.
He was winner 1986 of the Vucinich Prize from the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 1986.
As an expert of East European Economies and the Balkans, he
appears regularly on National Public Radio and on American
and Canadian television.
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Born
1954. Undergraduate degree from the Academy of Economics and
Commercial Sciences in Ankara. Later on, he received his MS
degree in Banking and Insurance from the same university.
1985-1986 MA degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee, USA.