Gilles Bransbourg, Economist and Historian, has been a Research Associate with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World since 2016. His research deals with comparative economic and monetary history, and he publishes extensively in a range of academic journals, conference proceedings, and books. A frequent speaker at major academic venues, he has presented at leading institutions including Yale, Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, the University of Chicago, All Souls College, the EPHE, the Collège de France, and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
He attended the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a Member in 2024-25, and prior to this had been invited for a residency at the American Academy in Rome in early 2023.
Gilles served previously as Executive Director of the American Numismatic Society in New York between 2019 and 2024.
He won the French nationwide Concours Général award in History at the age of 17 in 1982 and then studied Economics, Mathematics and Statistics in Paris at Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, École Polytechnique, Sciences Po and École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique from 1983 to 1990. He became a market economist, specialized in financial derivatives, and then held executive positions in the banking sector. Gilles stepped down in 2005, in order to engage fully with his lifelong passion, history. By 2010, he had completed a PhD in History at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Since 2022, Gilles is affiliated with IRAMAT, CNRS-Université d'Orléans, as Chercheur Associé and, since 2023, with the CNRS unit, Collège de France-located 'Monde Byzantin' as Chercheur Associé.
In 2015, Gilles Bransbourg was made a knight in the French Order of the Palmes Académiques. With the French Consulate in New York, he has contributed to the development of the English-French dual language curriculum in New York public schools.
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