Bernardo is professor of FinTech History and Global Trade, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is mainly interested in the long-term nature of technological change in retail banking. His most recent publications include “Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking” (OUP, 2018). He regularly contributes to media outlets on issues around cashless economy, FinTech, digital payments, ATMs and self-service in retail banking.
Northumbria University (Newcastle)
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
University of Sussex
Laia Becares
Laia is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Wellbeing at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in studying the pathways by which the discrimination and marginalisation of people and places lead to social and health inequalities across the life course, with a specific focus on racism and heteronormativity as systems of oppression.
CASS Business School
Thorsten Beck
Thorsten Beck is professor of banking and finance at Cass Business School and CEPR research fellow. His research and policy work have focused, among other issues, on bank resolution, macroprudential policies, SME finance, competition in banking, household access to finance and cross-border banking. He has worked as consultant for central banks and international financial institutions and has ample policy experience across advanced and emerging countries.
University College Cork
Matthias Beck
Areas of expertise: Risk and Risk Management, Health Management, Public Private Partnership, Public Sector Management.
The University of Manchester
Ralf Becker
Ralf has been teaching mathematics, statistics and econometrics at all levels at the University of Manchester since 2005. His research interest is in time-series and financial econometrics and also in the pedagogy of teaching economics, and quantitative skills in particular. He has particular expertise in helping students to learn coding skills as well as in the use of online clips and discussion boards as part of a blended learning offer.
Monash University and University of Warwick
Sascha O. Becker
Sascha O. Becker is Professor of Economics & Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He studied Economics at the Universities of Bonn, Germany, and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, France. He obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2001. He works on forced displacement in historic and
