Juan Carlos Moreno García (PhD in Egyptology, 1995) is a CNRS senior researcher at the Sorbonne University, Paris. He has published extensively on pharaonic administration and socio-economic history in a comparative perspective, and has organised several conferences on these topics. Recent publications include Markets and Exchanges in Pre-modern and Traditional Societies (Oxbow, 2021), The State in Ancient Egypt (2019) and Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East, 1300–500 BC (Oxbow, 2016). He is also co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Egyptian History.