Gary Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Gerstle received his BA from Brown University and his MA and PhD from Harvard University. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of more than ten books including The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (2022). The book has been translated into multiple languages, made ‘Best Books’ lists in the US, UK, the Netherlands, and India, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year.

Gerstle is currently the Joy Foundation Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, where he is working on a new book, Politics in Our Time: Authoritarian Peril and Democratic Hope in the Twenty-First Century. He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gerstle has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, the Atlantic, Dissent, the Nation, Unherd, Project Syndicate, and Die Zeit. He has designed and narrated a four-part series on American democracy for BBC World Service, and been interviewed on the Ezra Klein Show. He has participated in scores of podcasts, most ambitiously with David Runciman and Helen Thompson at Talking Politics and, most recently, with David Runciman at Past, Present, Future. With Noam Maggor and with support from the Hewlett Foundation, Gerstle is organizing a major international conference, “Building a Post-Neoliberal World: Paths to a New Economy and Politics,” to be held at the University of Cambridge in May 2025. 

Gerstle is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Society for American Historians, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

Bilal Hafeez is the Founder and CEO of Macro Hive. He was Global Head of International Fixed Income Strategy at Nomura between 2016 and 2019 and held various senior roles at Deutsche Bank between 2002 and 2015 including Head of Multi-Asset Research, Advisor to the CEO, Head of Asia Research in Singapore and Global Head of Foreign Exchange Research. Bilal started his career at JP Morgan in 1998 and was rated #1 market strategist by Euromoney and Institutional Investor between 2004 and 2013. He pioneered FX investment and smart beta benchmarks and was an Honorary Visiting Professor of Finance at Cass Business School. He studied Economics at St Johns College, Cambridge and has seven cats, four chickens, a beehive and one dog.

For decades, major financial publications and newspapers have relied on Bilal’s expertise in FX. Bilal’s insights and opinions have been published in Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, and he is a frequent guest on Bloomberg. Those who want to delve deeper into the Bilal-verse can also listen to his podcast, Macro Hive Conversations (formerly the Deep See With Bilal). He also regularly appears as a guest on podcasts such as ReSolve Riffs and Blockworks to discuss the macro outlook.