Gilles Bransbourg, economist and historian, holds a doctorate in history from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He has been a Research Associate at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World since 2016 and a member of its Director's Council since 2025. His research focuses on comparative economic and monetary history, and he regularly publishes in academic journals, conference proceedings and collective works. He has been a guest lecturer at numerous institutions, including Yale, Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, University of Chicago, All Souls College, EPHE, Collège de France and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
He was a Fellow of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study in 2024-2025, and was invited in residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2023 and 2026.
Gilles previously served as Executive Director of the American Numismatic Society in New York between 2019 and 2024.
He is currently working on a review of Roman coinage to be published by Cambridge University Press.
A graduate of the École polytechnique, Sciences Po and the École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique, he spent the first part of his career in the financial markets before devoting himself fully to his passion, history.