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Niall Ferguson (b. April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish historian best known for his unconventional views on imperialism and the origins of conflict in the Twentieth Century. After attending The Glasgow Academy, he was educated as a Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree. After two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, he took up a Research Fellowship at Christ's College Cambridge University, in 1989, subsequently moving to a Lectureship at Peterhouse. He returned to Oxford University in 1992 to become Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, a post he held until 2000, when he was appointed Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford University. 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, before moving to Harvard in 2004[1]. He is the Laurence Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Ferguson is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is a specialist in financial and economic history, and is a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times[2]. Ferguson's most recent publication, The War of the World was published in 2006 by Penguin Press.