Dr Philip Kay has combined a career in finance with academic research. Having read Greats as an undergraduate at Wadham in the 1970s, he returned to Oxford and completed a DPhil in Roman History at Wolfson in 2009. His research interests include the economy of the Roman Republic and monetary history, and he is the author of “Rome’s Economic Revolution”, published by Oxford University Press in 2014. He serves as Hon. Treasurer of the Roman Society, the UK’s leading organisation for the promotion of the study of ancient Rome and its Empire. At Wolfson, he is a member of the College’s Investment Committee and is a former chair of the Wolfson College Strategy Group.