In this series distributed by the New Books Network in 2024-25, Tim Gwynn Jones interviewed eight writers about their biographies of chairs of the US Federal Reserve, featuring …

• Mark Nelson on Marriner Eccles

• Bob Bremner on Bill Martin

• Wyatt Wells on Arthur Burns

• Bill Silber on Paul Volcker

• Sebastian Mallaby on Alan Greenspan

• David Wessel on Ben Bernanke

• Jon Hilsenrath on Janet Yellen

• Nick Timiraos on Jerome Powell

• 2026 special: Claire Jones, Michael Redmond, Catarina Saraiva on Kevin Warsh

In 2022-24, Tim Gwynn Jones interviewed officials who shaped the EU.

• “Market pressure was growing by the day” — Charles Dallara, 19 March 2024.

• “We couldn’t accept that Spain could do better than Italy” — Vincenzo Visco, 18 June 2023.

• “He was definitely not amused” — Lex Hoogduin, 5 May 2023.

• “Now maybe we’re a bit spoiled” — Klaus Regling, 4 March 2023.

• “We backed down and we started again” — Andrew McDowell, 17 February 2023.

• “Trust was thin on the ground” — Georges Heinrich, 6 January 2023.

• “Look into my eyes: you’re gonna go bankrupt” — Thomas Wieser, 9 December 2022.

• “Reality took its revenge” — Ramon Fernandez, 12 November 2022.

• “Putin didn’t know that he actually united Europe” — Erkki Liikanen, 22 October 2022.

From 2020-25, Tim Gwynn Jones did 95 interviews for the New Books Network on European affairs and economics. Highlights included conversations with:

• Anne Applebaum on “Autocracy Inc”. (June 2024).

• Yaroslav Trofimov, Simon Shuster (January 2024), Illia Ponomarenko, Jen Stout (May 2024) and Tom Mutch (May 2025) on reporting from the Ukraine war.

• John Cochrane, Luis Garicano, and Klaus Masuch on how to end the euro’s “crisis cycle” (June 2025).

• Matt Sleat and Paul Kelly on “post-liberalism” (December 2025).

• Lorenzo Castellani on “Mussolini’s Technocrat” (October 2025).

• Vuk Vuksanović on Serbia’s balancing act between Russia and the West (March 2025).

• Isaac Stanley-Becker on the history of the Schengen Area and Gabriel Gavin on reporting from the Nagorno-Karabakh wars (January 2025).

• Marko Attila Hoare on the surreal history of Serbia (February 2024).

• Mark Gilbert on the neglected history of postwar Italian democracy (June 2024).

• Benjamin Schupmann on when democracies are allowed to turn “militant” in their own defence and Dmitry Grozoubinski on “Why Politicians Lie About Trade” (May 2024).

• Michael Kimmage on the origins of Russia-Ukraine war and “the new global instability” (February 2024).

• Peter Foster on the predictable failure of Brexit (September 2023).

A reading list recommended by each interviewee can be found here.

From 2024 until mid-2026, Tim Jones and Pepijn Bergsen participated in Medley Advisors’ podcasts on markets and policymaking.