Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur is professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris School of economics (PSE). He has been the president of EHESS from 2012 to 2017 and is currently the president of the European Historical Economics Society, which congress will be held in Paris at the PSE in August 2019.
He heads the research infrastructure DFIH (Data for financial history), which has been selected in 2011 as an Equipement d’excellence by the French Ministry of Research and Higher Education, allowing for the development of a large database of french financial data since 1797. He has been publishing on financial and economic history, including Le marché financier français au 19e siècle (Sorbonne, 2007), and most recently, in financial history.