John Turner appointed visiting professor of financial history for the tenth year of the endowed professorship

In 2026, the “Financial History” Visiting Professorship at Goethe University will be held by Prof. John Turner, Ph.D., from Queen’s University Belfast. Established in 2014 by the banks Metzler and Edmond de Rothschild to mark the university’s centenary, and since 2017 supported jointly by Metzler and the Friedrich Flick Förderungsstiftung, the annual professorship brings leading international scholars to Frankfurt to enrich research and teaching at the Faculty of Economics and Business with a financial history perspective.

John Turner is a Professor of Finance and Financial History at Queen’s University Belfast and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bonn’s Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance and Inequality. He is a former Dean of Queen’s Business School. He is also the founder and director of the Queen’s University Centre for Economic History and the Long Run Institute. 

His book Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles was published by Cambridge University Press and was a Financial Times Economics Book of the Year in 2020. His most recent book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry was published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. His next book, which is entitled Losers: A Global History of Financial Failures from the Medici Bank to FTX, will be published in 2027 by Princeton University Press. 

He has held several distinguished positions during his career - he has been a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England and an Alfred D. Chandler Fellow at Harvard Business School. He has also been a visiting professor at the LSE, University of Melbourne and Yale University. 

Prof. Turner, an expert in economic history with deep experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, will teach in the university’s IEEP and MMF Master’s programs. He will also deliver a public lecture on Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, and organize an international conference on Insight from Hindsight: Useful Financial History, to highlight the value of financial history for financial research and practice.