Irene Finel-Honigman

Irene Finel-Honigman teaches international finance and economic policy at SIPA.

She previously served as a research scholar at SIPA and adjunct professor in the MBA program at Johns Hopkins University. From 2001 - 2008, she taught European Union political and financial history and policy in the Institute for the Study of Europe at SIPA.

Finel-Honigman served as senior adviser on finance policy at the United States Department of Commerce during the Clinton administration. Her responsibilities included the introduction of an initiative on the European Monetary Union and its implications for U.S. competitiveness.

Finel-Honigman's book, A Cultural History of Finance (Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2010), examines the societal and intellectual sources of the 2008 financial crisis within the historical context of European and American financial culture. She is researching her next book, International Banking for a New Century (Routledge). Finel-Honigman has published extensively on European financial and corporate issues, international relations and French intellectual and financial history. She is editor and an author of European Monetary Union Banking Issues: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (JAI Press, 2005). She regularly provides commentary for French, Belgian, Russian, and U.S. media, including CNN, WNYC, Bloomberg, and other television outlets.

Finel-Honigman has lectured at Columbia University; CUNY Graduate School European Union Center; Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Scripps College EU Center; Hofstra University School of Business; American Graduate School of International Management; San Diego State University; Ohio University; University of Vermont; Vienna Research Institute for European Affairs; New York University; Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; the French American Chamber of Commerce; and American Association of Teachers of French.

Finel-Honigman was previously Chair of Foreign Languages at the New School. She also served as Director of French Programs at Credit Lyonnais USA and as a consultant to the French Embassy Cultural Services on Business and Economic French programs in United States universities. Finel-Honigman is on the advisory board of the EU Center of CUNY Graduate School; Barnard College Club of New York and Maison Francaise of Columbia University. She has served on the Boards of the French American Chamber of Commerce; French-American Foundation; Societe des Professeurs Francais et Francophones d'Amerique, and the International Trade and Finance Association.

Born in France, Finel-Honigman earned a baccalaureat from the Lycee Francais de New York, B.A. from Barnard College, and Ph.D. from Yale University.