Niall Ferguson Biography

Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British-American historian and the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was born and raised in  Glasgow, Scotland. 

Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic and financial history, and British and American imperialism. He has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television and a columnist for Newsweek.

Ferguson has also written and presented numerous television documentary series, including The Ascent of Money, which won an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2009. He was named as one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004.

Niall Ferguson Age

Ferguson is 56 years as of 2020. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 18 April 1964. He celebrates his birthday on 18th April every year. His birth sign is Aries.

Niall Ferguson Height

Niall stands at an average height. He appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.

Ferguson Education

Ferguson obtained a demyship from Magdalen College, Oxford. Whilst a student there, he wrote a 90-minute student film The Labours of Hercules Sprote, played double bass in a jazz band “Night in Tunisia”, edited the student magazine Tributary, and befriended Andrew Sullivan, who shared his interest in right-wing politics and punk music.

He had become a Thatcherite by 1982. He graduated with a first-class honors degree in history in 1985. He studied as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin in 1987 and 1988. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1989: his dissertation was titled Business and Politics in the German Inflation: Hamburg 1914–1924.

Niall Ferguson Family

Ferguson was born in Glasgow, Scotland to his parents James Campbell Ferguson, a doctor, and Molly Archibald Hamilton, a physics teacher.  He grew up in the Ibrox area Glasgow in a home close to the Ibrox Park football stadium.

Niall Ferguson Wife, Ayaan Hirsi

In February 2010, Ferguson separated from his first wife Douglas and started dating former Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. They married on 10 September 2011 and Hirsi Ali gave birth to their son Thomas in December 2011.

Niall Ferguson First Wife, Sue Douglas

Ferguson has first married journalist Sue Douglas in 1994. They met in 1987 when she was his editor at The Sunday Times. They have three children: Felix, Freya, and Lachlan. Ferguson and Douglas divorced in 2011

Niall Ferguson Children

Ferguson is a proud father of four. Three from his first marriage namely Felix, Freya, and Lachlan, and one named Thomas with his current wife.

Niall Ferguson Net Worth

Ferguson has an estimated net worth of $3 million dollars as of 2020. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a historian. Through his various sources of income, he has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Niall Ferguson Measurements and Facts 

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Niall

Niall Ferguson Wiki

• Full Names: Niall Ferguson
• Popular As: Niall
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Historian
• Nationality: British-American
• Race / Ethnicity: Not Known
• Religion: Not Known
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Niall Ferguson Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 56 years (2020)
• Zodiac Sign: Aries
• Date of Birth: 18 April 1964
• Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
• Birthday: 18th April

Niall Ferguson Body Measurements

• Body Measurements:  Not Available
• Height / How Tall?:  Not Known
• Weight: Known
• Eye Color: Brown
• Hair Color: Dark Brown
• Shoe Size: Not Available

Niall Ferguson Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad):  James Campbell Ferguson,
• Mother: Molly Archibald Hamilton
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Not Known
• Marital Status: Married
• Wife/Spouse or Husband/Spouse: Married to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Children:  Sons ( Three) Daughter(s) (one)

Niall Ferguson Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth:  Under Review
• Salary:  Under Review
• Source of Income:  Under Review

Niall Ferguson House and Cars

• Place of living:  To be Updated
• Cars: Car Brand to be Updated

Niall Ferguson Historian

Ferguson worked as a research fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1989, From 1990 to 1992 he was an official fellow and lecturer at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He then became a fellow and tutor in modern history at Jesus College, Oxford, wherein in 2000 he was named a professor of political and financial history.

In 2002 Ferguson became the John Herzog Professor in Financial History at New York University Stern School of Business, and in 2004 he became the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Niall Ferguson Business career

In 2000, he was a founding director of Boxmind, an Oxford-based educational technology company. In 2006, Ferguson established a setup Chimerica Media Ltd., a London-based television production company.

In 2007, he was appointed as an investment management consultant by GLG Partners, to advise on geopolitical risk as well as current structural issues in economic behavior relating to investment decisions.

He also serves as a non-executive director on the board of Affiliated Managers Group.

Niall Ferguson Political involvement

Ferguson was an advisor to John McCain’s U.S. presidential campaign in 2008, supported Mitt Romney in his 2012 campaign, and was a vocal critic of Barack Obama.

Niall Ferguson Career as a commentator, documentarian, and public intellectual

Ferguson has written regularly for British newspapers and magazines since the mid-1980s. At that time, he was the lead writer for The Daily Telegraph and a regular book reviewer for The Daily Mail.

In the summer of 1989, while traveling in Berlin, he wrote an article for a British newspaper with the provisional headline “The Berlin Wall is Crumbling”, but it was not published.

In the early 2000s, he wrote a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph and Los Angeles Times, leaving in 2007 to become a contributing editor to the Financial Times. Between 2008 and 2012 he wrote regularly for Newsweek. Since 2015 he has written a weekly column for The Sunday Times and The Boston Globe, which also appears in numerous papers around the world.

Ferguson’s television series The Ascent of Money won the 2009 International Emmy award for Best Documentary.

In 2011 his film company Chimerica Media released its first feature-length documentary, Kissinger, which won the New York Film Festival’s prize for Best Documentary.

Niall Ferguson Television documentaries

• Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003)
• American Colossus (2004)
• The War of the World (2006)
• The Ascent of Money (2008)
• Civilization: Is the West History? (2011)
• Kissinger (2011)
• China: Triumph and Turmoil (2012)
• The Pity of War (2014)
• Networld (2020)

Niall Ferguson Books

• The Cash Nexus
• Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
• Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
• War of the World
• The Ascent of Money
• Civilization
• Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist
• The Square and the Tower

Frequently Asked Questions About Niall Ferguson

Who is Niall Ferguson?

Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British-American historian and the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was born and raised in  Glasgow, Scotland.

How old is Niall Ferguson?

Ferguson is 56 years as of 2020. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 18 April 1964.

How tall is Niall Ferguson?

Niall stands at an average height. He appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.

Is Niall Ferguson married?

In February 2010, Ferguson separated from his first wife Douglas and started dating former Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. They married on 10 September 2011 and Hirsi Ali gave birth to their son Thomas in December 2011.

How much is Niall Ferguson worth?