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Ned W. Downing is a 56 year old former Wall Streeter who pioneered the
mortgage
securitization business starting in 1979. He graduated from Tufts University
in 1968
and took a job with Bache & Co. where he worked for the next 18 years.
In 1986 he
opened his own company, N. W. Downing Realty Finance, Inc., where he continued
to
securitize and trade both conventional and income properties mortgage
loans.
In recent years Ned has focused his attention on his collection of early
American
financial history. He has written many articles for Barron’s, Financial
History,
Manuscripts, Paper Money, etc. and is working currently on several books.
Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Pennsylvania 1987
Prof. Hansen has written The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600
(2000); Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People
Used Contracts, 600-1400 (1995); and Changing Gods in Medieval China,
1127-1276 (1990). She teaches graduate seminars on the social history
of the Silk Road, Chinese documents, and issues in Tang-, Song-, and Yuan-dynasty
history. In 2000-2001, she and Anders Winroth will be co-teaching "The
Medieval Revolution in China and Europe."
Professor of History
Ph.D., Wisconsin 1978
Robert Harms is a Professor of History at Yale and director of the Council
on African Studies. He is the author of two books on the Congo: "River
of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the
Slave and Ivory Trade," and "Games Against Nature:
An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa." This
latter book won the George Perkins Marsh Prize
awarded by the American Society for Environmental History.
His most recent book, which came out last year, is "The Diligent:
A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade." This book has
won the Frederick Douglass Prize, awarded by the Gilder Lerhman Institute
for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; and it has won the
J. Russel Major Prize awarded by the American Historical Association.
Also, it is one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
in the category of History; and it is one of five finalists for the L.L.
Winship/PEN New England Literary Prize.
Professor Joost Jonker studied economic and social history at the Free
University, Amsterdam, 1the Netherlands. He has since specialised himself
in financial and trade history. Publications include (with M. 't Harten
J.L. van Zanden) ed., A financial history of the Netherlands (Cambridge
1997) and (with K.E. Sluyterman) At home on the world markets, Dutch trading
companies from the 16th century to the present (The Hague/Toronto 2000)
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