Manuel A. Bautista-González is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded project Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 (GloCoBank) at the University of Oxford. At GloCoBank, Manuel reconstructs and analyzes the relationships between banks in global financial centers (London, Paris, and New York) and those in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay) throughout the long twentieth century utilizing primary sources and quantitative methods.

Manuel, a financial historian of the Americas focusing on the United States and Mexico, earned his B.A. in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Ph.D. in United States History from Columbia University in the City of New York. His Ph.D. dissertation, titled “Gold and Silver Chains. The New Orleans Specie Market under International Bimetallism, 1839-1861,” was supervised by David Weiman and Elizabeth Blackmar.

Manuel has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at UNAM, Columbia University, the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), and Anáhuac University. He was the lead historian in projects commemorating the 150th anniversary of a global investment bank while working as a Winthrop Group consultant from 2018 to 2020. Manuel is also a contributing writer for Cash Essentials, a discussion platform focusing on retail payments and monetary ecosystems. He has convened the Financial History Network since its establishment in 2020.