Niall Ferguson

Niall Campbell Ferguson (born 18 April 1964) is a Scottish historian and writer. He is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard. Previously, he was a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and also taught at Harvard University and New York University. Ferguson writes and speaks about international history, economic and financial history and British and American imperialism. Ferguson has written and presented numerous television documentary series, including The Ascent of Money, which won an International Emmy award for Best Documentary in 2009. He has published fourteen books.