Michael Schiltz (Ph.D. 2002) works for the section of Japanese Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Specializing in the history of Japanese finance, he wrote a book about the activities of financial advisors to the governments of Japan's colonies and occupied territories before WWII. Research for this book brought him into contact with a lot of researchers at lost of places around the planet. He spent time in several research institutes and Japan and Italy; in 2006, he was a Kluge fellow at the Library of Congress (Washington DC).

For his work he received several prizes and awards. In 2007, he received the biennial prize for young researchers from the European Association for Banking History and the journal Financial History Review (Cambridge University Press). Since 2009, he is principal investigator of a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).

Michael lives in Brussels with his wife Mikiko and their son Yukinari.

Location

Brussels

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• History
• Area Studies
• Economics

Affiliation

University of Leuven