Dr Tehreem Husain

I was trained as an economist at Lahore University of Management Sciences (Pakistan) before doing my PhD in Infrastructure Finance (from a historical perspective) at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, UCL. On completing my PhD, I worked at the LSE Department of Economic History for two years, first as an Economic History Society Power Fellow and second, as an Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow.

I regularly write for the business pages of Pakistan's English daily, the Express Tribune and the Property Chronicle, a magazine on real estate investment and finance, published in London.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in infrastructure finance, particularly railways, during 1880-1913, a period characterised by high financial integration. My doctoral thesis ‘Foreign Investment and Infrastructure Financing: Railways During the First Age of Globalisation’ takes an investor’s perspective to explore the drivers and patterns of investment flows in railway financing. My recent research explores the role of market microstructure in railway financing, particularly the role of The House of Baring. I have published a paper in Business History on how The House of Baring's agents in Argentina, undertook brokerage activities in the country and directed capital flows to railway projects. Apart from railways, I am also interested in the evolution of banking in British India.