Richard Eugene Sylla (born ) is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Museum of American Finance. Before his retirement in 2015, he served as the Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and a professor of economics, entrepreneurship, and innovation at

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Stern School of Business, where he taught courses in financial history, economic and business history of the United States, and comparative enterprise systems. Professor Sylla also taught for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program alliance of

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, the

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, and served as academic director of executive programs at

.Richard Sylla’s profile at NYU Stern School of Business
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Biography

Prior to joining Stern, Sylla taught at North Carolina State University and the

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. His primary areas of research include historical studies of money, banking, and finance, and he is the past editor of ''Journal of Economic History'' and serves on the editorial board of many journals, including ''Financial History Review'', ''Enterprise and Society'', and ''Economic and Financial History Abstracts''. He once served as president of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference. Sylla received several awards and grants, including

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grants, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, and the Citibank Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Stern School. He resides in

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with his wife Edith. Sylla's brother, James, who was president of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., died in the crash of

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in 1987.

Books

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Articles, chapters, and other publications

Sylla has published scores of articles and book chapters, including: and has also been quoted in ''USA Today''.USA Today articles
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Education

Professor Sylla received his BA from Harvard before studying at the

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. He also received a MA and PhD from Harvard.

References

External links

NYU Stern BiographyDepartment of Economics BiographyUSA Today Articles
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