For other people with similar names, see Neil Ferguson (disambiguation).
Niall Ferguson
FRSE
Ferguson in 2017
Born
Niall Campbell Ferguson
(1964-04-18) 18 April 1964 (age 60)
Glasgow, Scotland
Citizenship
United Kingdom
United States
Spouses
Sue Douglas
(m. 1994; div. 2011)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(m. 2011)
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
Institutions
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
New York University
Harvard University
London School of Economics
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Doctoral students
Tyler Goodspeed
Notable works
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003) Civilisation: the West and the Rest (2011)
Niall Ferguson's voice
Recorded June 2012 from the BBC Radio 4 programme the Reith Lectures
Website
www.niallferguson.com
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]
^Biography Archived 20 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine Niall Ferguson
^"Niall Ferguson". Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
^"Niall Ferguson". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
^"Harvard University History Department — Faculty: Niall Ferguson". History.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
^Dalrymple, William. "Plain Tales from British India". The New York Review.
^Elliott, Michael (26 April 2004). "The 2004 TIME 100 - Niall Ferguson". TIME.
^Cite error: The named reference IntEmmy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Conservative Historian Niall Ferguson Blasts Trump's Foreign Policy". Fortune, by Chris Matthews. 3 May 2016
^Roush, Chris (28 May 2020). "Ferguson joins Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist". Talking Biz News.
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