Tobias Straumann is a private lecturer at the History Department of the University of Zurich and teaches at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Basel. His research focuses on the history of European monetary policy in the 20th century, the world economic crisis of the 1930s and Swiss economic and corporate history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Professor Straumann studied history and sociology at the University of Bielefeld, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the University of Zurich. In 1995, he published his dissertation on the origins of industrial research in 19th century Basel chemistry and worked as a journalist for five years. In 2000-01 he was Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, and in 2012-13 he was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His habilitation thesis was published in 2010, entitled Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010) as part of the Studies in Macroeconomic History Series.

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