Juan Flores Zendejas has a PhD in Economics from Sciences Po Paris. Before joining the Department of History, Economics, and Society at the University of Geneva as an Associate Professor in 2008, Flores Zendejas held a tenure-track position at the University Carlos III in Madrid (Spain). He has been invited professor in other universities in Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, and Switzerland. He has also worked for the Mexican Government and as external consultant to the Mexican Senate, to the private sector, and to the OECD. Flores Zendejas works on financial crises and sovereign defaults in a long-term perspective, and on the economic history of Latin America.
Pierre Pénet holds a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and Sciences Po Paris (2014). He is a CNRS researcher at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (IDHES) and a former Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (2019-20). His expertise straddles the boundaries of economic sociology and the history of quantification. He has worked extensively on topics of credit rating agencies, the European debt crisis, austerity pro- grammes, and the legal doctrine of odious debt. His work has been published by the British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Sociology, Poetics, Sociologie du Travail, etc. His forthcoming book on financial prophecies will study the economists who claim to have predicted the 2008 financial crisis.