Speaker Spotlight: Niall Ferguson
One of the world’s most accomplished historians and provocative commentators on global politics and economics, Niall Ferguson stands at the crossroads of past, present, and future. As the author of sixteen books, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, Ferguson has provided audiences worldwide with unparalleled insight and knowledge.
With erudition, eloquence, and humor, Ferguson specializes in putting today’s economic shifts, social changes, and political disruptions into historical perspective, using the past as a roadmap to the future.
Recent News Contributions
Ferguson recently joined the podcast Merryn Talks Money to discuss the implications for inflation, the Federal Reserve and how investors should navigate the current economic climate. He says “The world has been mired in a new Cold War for at least four years… The West needed to wake up to the Chinese threat.”
In his recent article for Bloomberg, “US Teens Feel Down, But the Adults Aren’t All Right Either,” Ferguson addresses mental health among adults, comparing their issues with those of Gen Z, whose mental health is more widely discussed. “Some of the most interesting recent research on human emotion has shown that emotional states can be transmitted through a social network… One begins to wonder if this is part of what is going on with the mental health epidemic among young people.”
Selected Books by Niall Ferguson
