Niall Ferguson
United States
Dr. Niall Ferguson has been a director of the Company since April 2014. He serves as Advisor at Domain Money. Dr. Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and previously was the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is an Angel Investor. He is also a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Mr. Ferguson is a frequent commentator on contemporary and historical politics and economics and has published fifteen award-winning books, including Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist, The Ascent of Money, Civilization: The West and the Rest, and The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die. In 2009, his six-part television series The Ascent of Money won the International Emmy for Best Documentary. Mr. Ferguson was the Philippe Roman Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics from 2010 to 2011 and the BBC Reith Lecturer for 2012. In 2010, he won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service, in 2012, the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and, in 2013, the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism. Mr. Ferguson is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the New-York Historical Society and the London-based Centre for Policy Studies, a Managing Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm that he founded, and a member of the Boards of Directors of Chimerica Media, a film company that he also founded, and Uala, an Argentine online finance company. Niall Ferguson not to stand for re-election to the Board when their terms expire in June 2020.
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