September 6th 2010

Albert Carreras, professor at the Department of Economics and Business and Dean of the School of Economics and Business of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, elected President of the EBHA for the years 2010 and 2011, has chaired its 14th annual conference, held in Glasgow, 26th to 28th August 2010.

The European Business History Association (link below), was created in 1994. It gathers some three hundred scholars from all over the world that share their common research interest in European business history. Its main activity is the organization of an annual conference that has been running uninterruptedly since 1998. Although every conference is open to the best research done in European business history, there is also a conference theme that changes every year. The theme aims at focusing the research attention within and outside EBHA. The keynote speech and the prize for the best paper presented at the annual conference are also related to the theme. In Glasgow it was "Business beyond the firm". Next one will be focused on "Business, Finance and the State in 20th Century Europe: Crises and Transformation"; and the next to "Tensions between Global and Local". On top of its regular activities, EBHA organizes a doctoral summer school every other year, publishes a newsletter, awards prizes to the best doctoral dissertations in European Business history and supports research in the field.

Albert Carreras was a member of the first elected EBHA Council for the period 1997-2000. In 2004 he organized, jointly with Matthias kipping, the annual EBHA conference in Barcelona (16th-18th September 2004: http://www.econ.upf.edu/ebha2004/). He was elected again to Council membership for 2005-2008. In 2007 he was elected Vice-president for 2008-2009, and in 2009 he was elected President for 2010-2011. During his tenure he will chair the Glasgow 2010 and the Athens 2011 conferences, and he will supervise the preparation of the next one (Paris, 2012), jointly organized with the Business History Society of Japan.

He is also the current Chairman of the Research Council of the European University Institute, in Florence; Vice-President of the Spanish Economic History Association (“Asociación Española de Historia Económica”) and a member of the External advisory Board of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, in Lisbon. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Business History, Enterprise and Society, Revista de Historia Económica – Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History and Revista de Historia Industrial.

Link to the EBHA webpage