Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior
Fellow at the Hoover Institution Stanford University a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard and a visiting professor at Tsinghua
University Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books including The Pity of War The House of
Rothschild Empire Civilization and Kissinger 1923-1968: The Idealist which won the Council
on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker too having won an
international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. 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). He writes a weekly column
for the Sunday Times for which he was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press
Awards.
