Education
PhD (York University, Canada)
Keywords
economic history; financial history; business history; risk; technological transformation (AI)
Biography
Laurence B. Mussio is a leading historian of business, finance and technology whose work bridges the worlds of scholarship, corporate leadership and public policy. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of the United Kingdom, he is Chair and co-founder of the Long Run Institute (LRI) - an international forum connecting historians, policymakers and senior executives - whose academic home is Queen's Business School.
He also serves as Special Advisor to the CEO of BMO Financial Group, one of North America's largest banks, and teaches in the MBA Programme at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has advised CEOs and senior leaders in telecommunications, financial services and the public sector. His consulting and advisory work spans the North Atlantic world, from Toronto and New York to London, Dublin, Belfast and Rome.
Dr. Mussio's association with Queen's runs deep. A member of the University's International Advisory Board since 2018, he has collaborated closely with QUB colleagues Dr. Michael Aldous and Professor John D. Turner on research spanning productivity, financial history and the governance of artificial intelligence, including a joint publication with the RAND Corporation on applying historical foresight to anticipatory AI policymaking. He has delivered keynote addresses and chaired major sessions in Belfast on subjects ranging from economic nationalism to making history useful for contemporary decision-making.