Despina Vlami

Despina Vlami is Director of Research in the Research Center for Medieval and Modern Hellenism of the Academy of Athens, Greece, where she directs a program on Trade and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 17th-19th centuries. She is the author of The Florin, the Grain and Via del Giardino: Greek merchants in Livorno (1750-1868) , (2000), and Trading with the Ottomans: The Levant Company in the Middle East , (I.B. Tauris 2015).

Despina Vlami is Director of Research in the Research Center for Medieval and Modern Hellenism of the Academy of Athens, Greece, where she directs a program on Trade and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 17th-19th centuries. She is the author of The Florin, the Grain and Via del Giardino: Greek merchants in Livorno (1750-1868) , (2000), and Trading with the Ottomans: The Levant Company in the Middle East , (I.B. Tauris 2015). See less