Niall Ferguson, MA, DPhil, FRSE, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of sixteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, and Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, having received an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His 2018 book, The Square and the Tower, was a New York Times best-seller and was adapted for television by PBS as Ferguson’s Networld. In 2020, he joined Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, a New York-based advisory firm, a co-founder of Ualá, a Latin American financial technology company, and a trustee of the New York Historical Society, the London-based Centre for Policy Studies and the newly founded University of Austin. His latest book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, was published by Penguin and was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. He is currently writing Kissinger, 1969-2023.