Niall Ferguson is one of the world's leading historians of the global economy. He is the author of such internationally-acclaimed works asThe Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power and the award-winning History of the House of Rothschild.
In 2007, he published The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, a ground-breaking examination of ethnicity, empires and the revival of the East and was turned into a 3-part public television series that aired in July, 2008. His latest book,The Ascent of Money, has just been published, and he is presenting the accompanying series on Channel 4.