Michael D. Bordo is an Emeritus Board of Governors Professor of Economics, an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Economics, and a former director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University. Currently, he is a distinguished visitor at the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University; and the Ilene and Martin Harris Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has held previous academic positions at the University of South Carolina and Carleton University. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Carnegie Mellon University, Lund University, the Stockholm School of Economics, the Paris School of Economics, the London School of Economics, Princeton University, Harvard University, and Cambridge University, where he was Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions. Bordo has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, The Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis, Cleveland and Dallas, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Banque de France, Norges Bank, the Riksbank, the Banca D’Italia, and the Bank for International Settlements. Bordo is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. He has a BA degree from McGill University, an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He has published many articles in leading scholarly journals and 27 books on monetary economics and monetary history. He is editor of a series of books for Cambridge University Press: Studies in Macroeconomic History.
 

Oliver Bush is a Senior Economist at the Bank of England. His work focuses on reform of the international monetary and financial system. He received his MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College University of London and his BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.