{"id":818,"date":"2025-02-04T08:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxford.lu\/?p=818"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:45:35","slug":"dinner-talk-on-the-hanseatic-league-25-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/dinner-talk-on-the-hanseatic-league-25-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 25 March 2025: Dinner-Talk with Jens Tholstrup: The Hanseatic League and its Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What a fabulous evening we had with Jens Tholstrup at Cercle. Jens\u2019 talk on the Hanseatic League took us back to the late Middle Ages when the League was at its height and in control of the trade in the wider Baltics area of many essential products, from herring to cloth. The talk inspired a host of excellent questions and this in turn was followed by a delicious and congenial dinner with members and friends from both Oxbridge, LSE, the Johanitter Order and Deutscher Verein. A Warm thank-you to Jens Tholstrup and to all our guests for making it such an enjoyable evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some great pictures of the event see below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jens-Tholstrup-photo-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-822 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jens-Tholstrup-photo-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jens-Tholstrup-photo-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jens-Tholstrup-photo-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jens-Tholstrup-photo-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jens-Tholstrup-photo-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jens-Tholstrup-photo-1-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jens-Tholstrup-photo-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Jens Tholstrup<\/strong>&nbsp;is Executive Chairman of Oxford Innovation Finance and Senior Adviser, PMB Capital. He is Chair of Governor of St Clare\u2019s, Director of Advanced Oxford and a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.&nbsp;Previously, Jens was Managing Director UK, Oxford Economics, Executive Director, Oxford Analytica and Executive Director, UBS\/UBS Warburg.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">Jens holds a MA in PPE and an MSc in Economic History (both Oxford).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tholstrup-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tholstrup-1-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tholstrup-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tholstrup-1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tholstrup-1-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, 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Jens\u2019 talk on the Hanseatic League took us back to the late Middle Ages when the League was at its height and in control of the trade in the wider Baltics area of many essential products, from herring to cloth. The talk inspired a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/dinner-talk-on-the-hanseatic-league-25-march-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday 25 March 2025: Dinner-Talk with Jens Tholstrup: The Hanseatic League and its Legacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tholstrup-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxford.lu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}