Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson 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 at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.[1]
Early Life
Ferguson was born in Glasgow on 18 April 1964. He was educated at Glasgow Academy.[2]
Academic Career
Ferguson graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with First Class Honours in 1985. He spent two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, before taking up a Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1989. He later moved to a Lectureship at Peterhouse. He returned to Oxford in 1992 to become Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, a position he held until 2000, when he was appointed Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford. Two years later he left for the United States to take up the Herzog Chair in Financial History at the Stern Business School, New York University. He moved to Harvard in 2004.[3]
Affiliations
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Harvard University
- Harvard Business School
- Center for European Studies
- Jesus College, Oxford University
- Hoover Institution
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- Centre for Policy Studies
Notes
- ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
- ↑ PROFILE: Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times, 14 February 2010.
- ↑ PROFILE: Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times, 14 February 2010.
