Dr Philip Kay combines a career in finance with academic research. Having held senior positions at Schroders, Smith New Court and Credit Suisse, he is now the Managing Partner of a specialist Japanese asset management firm.

He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, where his main research interests include the economy of the Roman Republic, the structure and practice of ancient banking and the socio-economic context of early Roman law.

He is the author of a monograph, Rome’s Economic Revolution, published by OUP in 2014.