Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He  is one of the world's leading historians on the global economy.  Controversial, expansive and eloquent, he writes and speaks about the costs and benefits of globalisation and the relations between finance and politics.

His recent book "Civilization" The west and the rest  is an international best seller and the basis for a multi-part television documentary. The London Sunday Times called Civilization “a masterpiece ... a pulsing energy suffuses his account and fascinating facts burst like fireworks on every page”.  

A weekly columnist for Newsweek and a contributing editor for Bloomberg TV, Niall Ferguson divides his time between the United States and the United Kingdom. He is currently working on a life of Henry Kissinger. The film based on his interviews with Kissinger won the 2011 New York Film Festival prize for Best Documentary.

Ferguson is author of several other internationally-acclaimed works, including The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, The War of the World, and The World’s Banker. He currently is writing a biography of Henry Kissinger. He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic and several of his books have been made into television documentaries, including Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, and The Ascent of Money.

Born in Glasgow in 1964, Ferguson was a demy at Magdalen College and graduated with First Class Honours in 1985. After two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, he took up a Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1989, subsequently moving to a Lectureship at Peterhouse. He returned to Oxford in 1992 to become Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, a post he held until 2000, when he was appointed professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford. Two years later he left for the United States to take up the Herzog Chair in Financial History at the Stern Business School, New York University, before moving to Harvard in 2004.

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