Welcoming our current fellow: Mark Edward Hay Welcoming our current fellow: Mark Edward Hay

Mark Edward Hay has joined CASFI in February 2026. He is an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is currently writing up an edited volume on how businesses on both sides of the Atlantic navigated the political and economic turmoil unleashed by the Age of Revolutions, 1775-1825. His next project investigates social-cultural embeddedness of Amsterdam financial networks. Central questions are: how were Amsterdam bankers educated, trained, and recruited? How did Amsterdam bankers employ origin stories to justify and legitimise their rise to prominence? How did the informal institutions of the Amsterdam market operate during periods of financial crisis or bankruptcy? An key line of inquiry examines the prominence and subsequent marginalisation of female managers of Amsterdam banking houses. The laboratory for this project is the European market for international government finance, 1750-1850.