Tobias Straumann is a professor of modern and economic history at the University of Zurich. He studied in Berkeley, Bielefeld, Paris and Zurich and held visiting positions at the University of Lausanne, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the financial and monetary history of the twentieth century, including 1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler(OUP, 2019).