Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson
Ferguson in 2017
Born
Niall Campbell Ferguson

(1964-04-18) 18 April 1964 (age 60)
Glasgow, Scotland
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Spouses
  • (m. 1994; div. 2011)
  • (m. 2011)
Children5
Academic background
EducationMagdalen College, Oxford
(MA, DPhil)
University of Hamburg
ThesisBusiness and Politics in the German Inflation (1989)
Doctoral advisorNorman Stone
InfluencesA. J. P. Taylor
Academic work
DisciplineInternational history
Economic history
Institutions
Doctoral studentsTyler Goodspeed
Notable worksEmpire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003)
Civilisation: the West and the Rest (2011)
Websitewww.niallferguson.com Edit this at Wikidata

Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (/ˈnl/; 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]

  1. ^ Biography Archived 20 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine Niall Ferguson
  2. ^ "Niall Ferguson". Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Niall Ferguson". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Harvard University History Department — Faculty: Niall Ferguson". History.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  5. ^ Dalrymple, William. "Plain Tales from British India". The New York Review.
  6. ^ Elliott, Michael (26 April 2004). "The 2004 TIME 100 - Niall Ferguson". TIME.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference IntEmmy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Conservative Historian Niall Ferguson Blasts Trump's Foreign Policy". Fortune, by Chris Matthews. 3 May 2016
  9. ^ Roush, Chris (28 May 2020). "Ferguson joins Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist". Talking Biz News.

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