- 性别：男
- 职业：编剧,演员
- 国籍：英国
- 星座：白羊座
- 出生日期：1964年04月18日
- 出生地区：英国,苏格兰,格拉斯哥
- 介绍：Niall Campbell Ferguson (/ˈniːl/; born 18 April 1964)is a British historian and political commentator. He is currently 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. Previously, he was also the Laurence Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. Ferguson writes and speaks about international history, economic and financial history, and British and American imperialism.He is known for his provocative, contrarian views.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 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.Ferguson received the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism in 2013.
