Prof. Dr. Niall Ferguson

Prof. Dr. Niall Ferguson is one of the leading experts in the field of financial and economic history and one of the best-known and most renowned historians of our time. He has been a professor of history at Harvard University and Harvard Business School and has taught at Oxford University, Stanford University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, among others. He is a Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a faculty member at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

He serves intermittently as an editor for the Financial Times. A commentator on contemporary politics and economics, he writes and reviews regularly for the British and American press. His first book, Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927, was shortlisted for the History Today Book of the Year awards. His books are international bestsellers and are translated into many languages. With a healthy dose of fatalism, but never irreverent, he outlines crises of the past, showing how they changed societies.

In his presentations, Prof. Ferguson examines the most important issues of the present and current trends in politics, economics and finance. His answers and complex analyses are of the greatest interest to decision-makers in all fields. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people.

His landmark remarks make Prof. Ferguson a sought-after commentator at national and international forums. Prof. Ferguson's lectures are known for their dazzling wit and analytical clarity. He is a regular guest on television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. Prof. Ferguson is a controversial, expansive and articulate writer, described as "the most talented British historian of his generation"

He presents in English.