The Bank for International Settlements appointed Harold James as its tenth Alexandre Lamfalussy Fellow. The Alexander Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellowship is awarded annually to experts on banking, monetary policy, and financial stability.

Harold James, the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Princeton, is an economic historian, specializing in the history of Germany, Europe and globalisation. His books include a study of the interwar depression in Germany (1986); International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996); The End of Globalization (2001); The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle (2009); Making the European Monetary Union (2012); and Seven Crashes (2023), which was shortlisted for 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize.