Dr. Mussio is a business historian based in Toronto, Canada specializing in the history of financial institutions, risk, technological transformation and communication regulation in the North Atlantic world (19thC to present). Co-founder/director of the Long Run Institute (LRI) based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Toronto, Canada. He is also a Special Advisor to the Office of the CEO, BMO Financial Group. Laurence is a frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail, Canada's newspaper of record, as well as a senior collaborator/author with the RAND Corporation. He is represented by the World Wide Speakers Group (WWSG) based in Washington, D.C.