Maylis Avaro

Maylis Avaro holds a Ph.D. in Economics and History from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. She is currently Howard S. Marks Postdoctoral Fellowship and invited lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania where she investigates and teaches financial and monetary history. Previously, she held visiting positions at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, at Oxford University and at Rutgers University. Her research interests are 19th and 20th century financial history, monetary economics and banking. Her current projects focuses on measuring the rise and fall of international reserve currencies under the Bretton Woods era, and analyzing risk management at the discount window of the French central bank in the late 19th century. Her updated CV can be found on her website.