Ghassan Moazzin is Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of History. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he received both his B.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2017). Before coming to Hong Kong, he was a JSPS International Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics of the University of Tokyo. He has also been a visiting scholar at East China Normal University in Shanghai and the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei. His doctoral dissertation won both the Coleman Prize of the Association of Business Historians and the Herman E. Krooss Prize of the Business History Conference. It was also a finalist for the Dissertation Prize (Category: The Long 19th Century) of the World Economic History Congress 2018.

Moazzin’s research focuses on the history of modern China, with a particular interest in economic and business history, global history, and the history of technology. He has previously worked on the history of foreign banks and international finance in late 19th and early 20th century China. His research has been published in Cross-Currents, Modern Asian Studies, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, International Journal of Asian Studies, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and Business History. In 2022, his first monograph, Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870 – 1919, was published by Cambridge University Press. In 2023, the book was a finalist for the Hagley Prize in Business History. In 2024, it received the Honorable Mention for the Ralph Gomory Prize and was the co-winner of the First Monograph Prize in Economic and/or Social History of the Economic History Society. Moazzin’s current major research and book project deals with the history of the electrical and electronics industries in China from the 19th century to the 1970s. In addition, he is also writing a book tentatively titled “A Business History of Modern China: c. 1800 to the Present,” which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.