Catherine Schenk

• Economic history
• Social history
• International economics
• Sterling area

Catherine Schenk FRSA FRHistS FAcSS
Born	Catherine Ruth Schenk (1964-09-02) 2 September 1964 (age 60)
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Title	Professor of Economic and Social History
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Toronto London School of Economics
Doctoral advisor	Alan Milward
Institutions	Victoria University of Wellington Royal Holloway, University of London University of Glasgow St Hilda's College, Oxford

Catherine Ruth Schenk FRSA FRHistS FAcSS ^[1] (born 2 September 1964) is a Canadian economic historian. She is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at St Hilda's College. She is also an associate fellow at Chatham House. ^[2]

Education and career

Schenk completed her undergraduate studies in economics at the University of Toronto. ^[3] She then moved to the London School of Economics to obtain her PhD under the supervision of Alan Milward. ^[4]

She started her career as a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She then moved to London to be a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London.

From 1996 to 2017, she taught at the University of Glasgow, first as a lecturer until 1998, senior lecturer until 2002, reader until 2004 and professor starting in 2004. In 2017, Catherine Schenk was nominated professor at the University of Oxford. ^[2]

Research

Professor Schenk's research focuses the economic history of post war Britain. Her work focuses extensively on the decline of the British Empire, its currency and economy. Her first two books focused on the declining role of sterling in the global economy: Britain and the Sterling Area: from Devaluation to Convertibility in the 1950s ^[5] and The decline of sterling: managing the retreat of an international currency, 1945–1992. ^[6] The first takes the perspective of the sterling area while the second book focuses more broadly on the political and economic context in Britain.

She has also been leading the research agenda on the Eurodollar market, the European dollar lending market which emerged in the 1950s. ^[7] And another strand of her research focuses on the role Hong Kong played in the global economy. ^{[8] [9]}

Bibliography

• Britain and the Sterling Area: From Devaluation to Convertibility in the 1950s (London: Routledge, 1994) ISBN   041509772X
• Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre: Emergence and Development 1945-1965 (London: Routledge, 2001) ISBN   0415205832
• Hong Kong SAR's Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges: Historical Perspectives (editor; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) ISBN   9780230209466
• The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945-1992 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) ISBN   9780521876971
• International Economic Relations since 1945 (London: Routledge, 2011) ISBN   9780415570763
• The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History (co-editor with Youssef Cassis and Richard S. Grossman; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) ISBN   9780199658626
• Deutsche Bank: The Global Hausbank, 1870-2020 (co-author with Werner Plump and Alexander Nützenadel; London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) ISBN   9781472977328
• Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises (co-editor with Youssef Cassis; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) ISBN   0192643967

References

1. "Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellowship - Appointment 2018-19". Bank for International Settlements. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
2. "Catherine Schenk". Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
3. "Professor Catherine R Schenk". www.history.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
4. Catherine R. Schenk (1994). Britain and the Sterling Area: From Devaluation to Convertibility in the 1950s. London: Routledge. p. ix. ISBN   041509772X.
5. "Britain and the Sterling Area: From Devaluation to Convertibility in the 1950s". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
6. Schenk, Catherine R. (2010). The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945–1992. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-87697-1.
7. "Splendid isolation? Most people prefer globalisation". Financial Times. 2022-07-28. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
8. Schenk, Catherine R. (2002-10-01). "Banks and the emergence of Hong Kong as an international financial center" . Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. 12 (4): 321–340. doi:10.1016/S1042-4431(02)00017-3. ISSN   1042-4431.
9. Kuper, Simon (2022-07-28). "Splendid isolation? Most people prefer globalisation". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-11-10.