Dr Thibaud Giddey

Thibaud Giddey is currently a postdoctoral researcher (SNF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellow) at the University of Zurich, working on a project on the history of business lawyers. Previously he was a lecturer (Maître assistant) in contemporary history at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Dr Giddey is an associate member of the University of Oxford History Faculty and in 2021-2022, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher on the ERC funded project Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000. His role in the project focused on gathering and using archival data on the strategies, management and governance of international correspondent banking relationships by European banks. He previously held visiting positions at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), City University London and Uppsala University (Sweden).

His research interests lie at the crossroads between the history of financial supervision and regulation, the internationalisation of banking, the history of white-collar crime, the role of business elites in modern societies. His recent publications include the Formalization of Banking Supervision, 19th-20th centuries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and The Institutionalization of the Fight against White-Collar Crime in Switzerland, 1970-1990 (Business history, 2020).

Personal website: https://thibaudgiddey.com/