Niall Ferguson | |
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Born | Niall Campbell Ferguson 18 April 1964 Glasgow, Scotland |
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Children | 5 |
Academic background | |
Education | Magdalen College, Oxford (MA, DPhil) University of Hamburg |
Thesis | Business and Politics in the German Inflation (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Norman Stone |
Influences | A. J. P. Taylor |
Academic work | |
Discipline | International history Economic history |
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Doctoral students | Tyler Goodspeed |
Notable works | Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003) Civilisation: the West and the Rest (2011) |
Website | www |
Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (/ˈniːl/; born 18 April 1964)[1] is a Scottish–American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.[2][3] Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.
Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic history, financial history and the history of the British Empire and American imperialism.[4] He holds positive views concerning the British Empire.[5] In 2004, he was one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.[6] 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.[7]
Ferguson has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television[8] and a columnist for Newsweek. He began writing a semi-monthly column for Bloomberg Opinion in June 2020.[9]
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