Angelo Riva is Director of Research and Full Professor at EBS-Paris as well as a Research Affiliate at the Paris School of Economics and an Academic Fellow at the Institut Louis Bachelier. It uses methods and theories of management and economics to better understand financial development and its consequences. He has published numerous articles on this subject in the best journals of economics, economic history and business history. He was the project leader of the H2020 EurHisFirm project(https://eurhisfirm.eu/) and of the ANR project Systemic Risk in the 1930s, as well as co-director of the Excellence Equipment Data for Financial History(https://dfih.fr/), dedicated to digital social sciences. Before joining EBS-Paris, Angelo taught in Italy and France, notably at Sciences-Po Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Sorbonne.