Niall Ferguson, MA, DPhil, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History.

He is also a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He is the author of fifteen books. His most recent book, The Square and the Tower, was published in the U.S. in January, and was a New York Times best seller. His previous book Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is also an award-making filmmaker, having won an International Emmy for his Channel 4 series The Ascent of Money (adapted for PBS).

His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012), and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). In addition to writing a weekly column for the Sunday Times (London) and the Boston Globe, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, an advisory firm. He also serves on the board of Affiliated Managers Group.

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