Niall Ferguson

Mr. Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and also currently the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics. In 2008, Mr. Ferguson published the best-selling Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin, 2008). He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003 he wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK terrestrial broadcaster. A prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics, Mr. Ferguson writes and reviews regularly for the British and American press. He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times and a regular contributor to Newsweek. In 2004 Time magazine named him as one of the world's hundred most influential people.