Niall Campbell Ferguson (/nil fr..sn/; born 18 April 1964)[1] is a Scottish historian.

He is
the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a senior research
fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. He writes and speaks about
international history, economic and financial history, and British and American imperialism.[2] He
is known for his provocative, contrarian views.[3] Ferguson's books include Empire: How Britain
Made the Modern World, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and
Civilization: The West and the Rest, all of which he has presented as Channel 4 television series.

In 2004, he was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
In previous years, he has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television[4] and a columnist
for Newsweek. Ferguson was an advisor to John McCain's U.S. presidential campaign in 2008,
supported Mitt Romney in 2012 and has been a vocal critic of Barack Obama.[5][6] Ferguson
received the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism in 2013.