Catherine Schenk

Catherine Ruth Schenk (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.

Education and career Schenk completed her undergraduate studies in economics at the University of Toronto. She then moved to the London School of Economics to obtain her PhD under the supervision of Alan Milward.

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. and The decline of sterling: managing the retreat of an international currency, 1945–1992. 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. And another strand of her research focuses on the role Hong Kong played in the global economy.

Editorial work Schenk currently serves as managing editor of The Economic History Review.