Geoffrey Jones is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School, United States. He previously taught at the universities of Cambridge and Reading, and at the London School of Economics, in the UK. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on the history of international business, including British Multinational Banking 1830–1990 (Oxford, 1993), Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford, 2000), Multinationals and Global Capitalism (Oxford, 2005), and Renewing Unilever (Oxford, 2005). He is a former President of both the European Business History Association and the Business History Conference of the United States, and is co-editor of the journal Business History Review.