Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is one of the world's leading historians of the global economy and author of such internationally-acclaimed works as The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and The Lessons for Global Power, the award-winning History of the House of Rothschild and Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire. The New York Times Book Review named Ferguson’s 2006 work, The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006. His best-selling book, The Ascent of Money, delves into the history and evolution of finance. Ferguson’s latest book, High Financier: The Lives and Times of Siegmund Warburg was published in June 2010.

Controversial, expansive, and eloquent, Ferguson has been called “the most talented British historian of his generation”. But the ambitious themes he explores in his work have urgent relevance to the present as well as the past: the costs and benefits of economic globalization; the interface between finance and politics; the lessons to be learned from the British experience of empire; and most recently, the strengths and limitation of American global power.

Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Ferguson is a public intellectual whose work impacts industry, finance, government, and academia.

Ferguson is both a public intellectual and an acclaimed academic. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Professor of International History at Harvard University.

• 'Anglobalization': Lessons for the United States from the British Empire

• Are Capitalism and Democracy Bound to Win?

• Business Empires: How Companies Rise and Fall

• Geopolitics of the Credit Crunch

• Globalization in the Long Run: Some Lessons from History

• High Liquidity and Low Volatility in Historical Perspective

• Is the United States an Empire? Should it be?

• Is the United States an Empire? Should it be?

• It's the Economy, Stupid – Or is it? Elections and the Business Cycle

• Political Risk and Moral Hazard: The Limits of Liquidity in a Dangerous World

• Political Risk and the Global Business Environment

• Sinking Globalization: What Could Go Wrong?

• The Coming Fiscal Crisis of the Welfare State

• The Decline of the Dollar: The Rise and Fall of a Reserve Currency

• The End of Europe: The Economic, Social and Political Decline of an Idea

• The Great Reconvergence? What Asian Economic Growth means for the West

• The Next War of the World? Assessing Geopolitical Risk

• The Widening Atlantic: How Europe is Moving Away from America

• To Have and Have Not: Commodities in the Long Run

• Whatever Happened to Inflation? From Commodity to Asset Price Inflation

• Why was the Twentieth Century so Violent?

• “Niall Ferguson's keynote speech at our annual conference in Montreux on the likelihood of a return to the gold standard, was both entertaining and informative. Delegates gave him the highest rating of all the speakers on their feedback forms.”
  London Bullion Market Association
• “Niall is a historian with a good grasp of economics, and a willingness to challenge head-on, conventional beliefs. He is highly articulate, engages the audience directly, and seems able to speak easily on a wide range of topics. He's one of the most capable and stimulating speakers I've ever seen.”
  First Quadrant
• “Niall Ferguson was a great draw to our conference and lived up to all our expectations as a guest speaker. He understood perfectly what we were hoping for and our audience was captivated by his highly intelligent but easy to understand address.”
  GAM
• “Not only is he a brilliant speaker with a vast array of financial and historical anecdotes at his finger tips, he's also a down to earth, approachable guy. He will energize the audience with his engaging analysis of geopolitics, history and finance.”
  Drobny Capital

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