Cristina Peicuti is a professor and the scientific director of a research chair at ESCP Business School in Paris. She foresaw the 2008 crisis, which was the subject of her thesis, "The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Credit Channel" (Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, 2006-2009). She is the author of several books: The European Economy in 100 Quotes, Of Banks and Crises (2024) and Decoding Economic Crises (2023).