Oscar Gelderblom (1971) is a professor of economic and social history at Antwerp University since 2021. He has a special interest in the history of trade and finance. He has published on the organization of long-distance trade in early modern Europe, on financial markets, entrepreneurship, migration and political economy. He currently works on historical household finance in the 19th and 20th century, on the early history of the Dutch East India Company, and on the financial development of the Low Countries before the Industrial Revolution.