Manuel Llorca-Jaña is Associate Professor and Vice-Director of the Department of Economics at the University of Santiago, Chile, where he specializes in Latin American economics and business history; nineteenth-century Anglo-Latin American trade and investment; nineteenth- and twentieth- century international trade and nineteenth-century merchant houses and merchant banking. His 2012 publication The British textile trade in South America in the nineteenth century won the Vicens Vives Prize in 2013.