Cristina Peicuti foresaw the 2008 crisis, which was the subject of her thesis, "The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Credit Channel" (Paris, Panthéon-Assas University, 2006-2009). A professor and the scientific director of a research chair at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP BS), she is a senior economist at one of the world’s thirty globally systemic banks (G-SIBs). Cristina is the author of several books: A Monetary and Economic History of France since 1944, Of Banks and Crises (2024), Decoding Economic Crises (2023) and Credit, Destabilisation and Crises (2010).