I am a third-year doctoral researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. My PhD research project focuses on the organization of the Indian Ocean trade by the English and the Dutch East India Companies in the eighteenth century. I am interested in understanding how the companies differed from the merchants and commercial networks operating in the Indian Ocean by investigating their accounting information systems. My research interests include the early modern history of the Indian Ocean, early modern global trade, accounting and business history, and the history of capitalism.