Susana Münch Miranda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Nova University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas) and a researcher at CSG/GHES, Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG). She specializes in Economic and Social History, with a special focus on the institutional processes underlying state formation and empire-building in the early modern period. Susana studied History at the Nova University of Lisbon (BA 1987; MA 1993; PhD 2007) and lectured at the History Department at Nova (1996-2014). Between 2014 and 2016 she was a senior researcher at Leiden University, where she worked on the project Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period funded by NWO – The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. This allowed her to broaden her international experience and expand her research expertise to transnational and trans-imperial business networks. Upon her return to Lisbon, Susana lectured at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Management (2016-2018), and worked as a member of the research project “Sovereign debt and private credit in Portugal (1668-1797), hosted by CSG/GHES, Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) (2019-2021), before returning to the Department of History of Nova University of Lisbon. Susana has contributed to topics such as the transference and adaptation of European fiscal institutions to colonial settings, the role of colonial elites in imperial governance, the regulation of land property rights, and the role transnational business networks played in the exploitation of colonial resources. Her current research interests focus on early modern public finance, fiscal institutions and transnational business networks.