Richard Roberts BA London (UCL), PhD Cambridge

Director, Centre for Contemporary British History

Selected Publications

• 'London as a Financial Centre, 1980-2000' in Y Cassis and E Bussiere (eds) London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century (OUP, 2005)
• The City (The Economist, 2004)
• Wall Street (The Economist, 2003)
• City State: A Contemporary History of the City and How Money Triumphed with David Kynaston, (Profile Books, 2002)
• Take Your Partners: Orion, the Consortium Banks and the Transformation of the Euromarkets (Palgrave, 2001)
• Inside International Finance (Orion, 1998)
• The Bank of England 1694-1994: Money, Power and Influence co-ed. with David Kynaston (OUP, 1995)
• International Financial Centres ed. 4-volumes (Edward Elgar, 1994)
• Schroders: Merchants & Bankers (Macmillan, 1992)

Current Book

• The End of Bretton Woods (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)

Areas of Research Supervision

• Financial history
• Business history
• Modern economic history
• Film and history

Doctoral Theses Recently Supervised

• 'Development of the MBA qualification in Britain, 1965-2000', by Dr Jo Workman (co-supervised with Pat Thane)