A public intellectual whose work impacts finance, government, and academia, Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s leading historians of the global economy.  He 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, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. 

Controversial, expansive and eloquent, Ferguson is regarded as “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.  His latest book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists and garnered accolades worldwide.  His previous book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, was an international bestseller and the basis for a multipart television series that won the International Emmy Award for best documentary.

SPEAKER TOPICS

An accomplished speaker, Niall Ferguson’s presentations are celebrated for their scintillating wit and analytical clarity. Applying his diligent research and exceptional acumen onto economic and political developments, Ferguson examines current trends and demonstrates how the power of past experience can parlay into prosperity for the future.  Among his numerous speech topics:

• The Ascent and Descent of Money: What Went Wrong with Western Finance?
• Globalization: Past, Present and Possible Futures
• The Great Depression 2.0: The Credit Crunch in Historical Perspective
• Are Capitalism and Democracy Bound to Win?
• Political Risk and the Global Business Environment
• Business Empires: How Big Companies Rise and Fall