Details About Niall Ferguson: Net Worth, Measurements, Age



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Niall Ferguson is a British historian and author. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Ferguson has written fourteen books, including The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008) and The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018).

Thanks to @JGForsyth for recommending that the next prime minister read my old collection of counterfactual essays, Virtual History: https://t.co/flzxoSRU4k pic.twitter.com/vmneBPLqL0

— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) July 28, 2022

Ferguson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 18 April 1964, the son of James Campbell Ferguson, a doctor, and Molly Ferguson (née Knox), a social worker. He has two younger brothers, Malcolm and Colin. Ferguson was educated at Glasgow Academy, where he was dux of his class, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in history in 1985.

Ferguson’s first book, Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and the Rise of the Third Reich (1995), was based on his doctoral thesis. It was followed by The Pity of War (1998), a re-examination of the causes of the First World War. In 2000, Ferguson published The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000, which looked at the relationship between economics and politics from a historical perspective.

In 2004, Ferguson published Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire, which examined the United States’ global role in the early 21st century. In 2006, he released The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, a history of the world during the first half of the 20th century.

Ferguson’s most recent book is The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018), which looks at the role of networks in history.

Ferguson has been a visiting professor at a number of universities, including Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, and New York University. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Ferguson has been married three times. His first marriage was to Susan Douglas-Scott, with whom he has two sons. His second marriage was to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician and author. They have one son. His third marriage is to Louise Mensch, a British journalist and author. They have two children.

Ferguson has an estimated net worth of $25 million.

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia