Niall Ferguson

Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of 16 books, most recently 'Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.' He is also the founder of advisory firm Greenmantle and a founding trustee of the new University of Austin.

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