Niall Ferguson

Historian, Author

1964 –

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Who is Niall Ferguson?

Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His speciality is international history, economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, and British and American imperialism. He is known for his provocative, contrarian views.

Ferguson's books include Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and Civilization: The West and the Rest, all of which he has presented as Channel 4 television series.

In 2004, he was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Since 2011, he has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television and a columnist for Newsweek.

Ferguson was an advisor to John McCain's U.S. presidential campaign in 2008, and announced his support for Mitt Romney in 2012 and has been a vocal critic of Barack Obama.

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Born
Apr 18, 1964
Glasgow
Also known as
  • Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson
  • Prof. Niall Ferguson
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • Scotland
Profession
Education
  • Christ's College, Cambridge
  • Peterhouse, Cambridge
  • Magdalen College, Oxford
  • The Glasgow Academy
Employment
  • Harvard University
Lived in
  • Glasgow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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