Niall Ferguson, unul dintre cei mai cunoscuti istorici britanici, este Milbank Family senior fellow la Hoover Institution, Stanford University, senior fellow la Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard, si director managerial la Greenmantle LLC, New York. A fost profesor la Harvard University si visiting professor la New College of the Humanities, Oxford. A publicat 16 volume, printre care The House of Rothschild, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist si Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. A primit numeroase distinctii: Wadsworth Prize for Business History (1998), Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012), Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013), Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize (2016). De acelasi autor, la Editura Polirom au aparut: Civilizatia. Vestul si Restul (2011, 2014, 2017), Istorie virtuala. Evolutii alternative si ipoteze contrafactuale (coord., 2013), Marele Declin. Cum decad institutiile si mor economiile (2014), Ascensiunea banilor. O istorie financiara a lumii (2016), Imperiul. Cum a creat Marea Britanie lumea moderna (2018), Piata si turnul. Retele, ierarhii si lupta pentru putere (2018), Colosul. Ascensiunea si decaderea imperiului american (2019), Apocalipsa. Mari dezastre din trecut si cateva lectii pentru viitor (2021), Marele Razboi. 1914-1918 (2021) si Razboiul Lumii. Epoca urii (2022).