Sir Niall Ferguson, MA, DPhil, FRSE, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of 16 books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is a columnist with the Free Press. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle, a New York-based advisory firm, a co- founder of the Latin American fintech company Ualá, and a co-founding trustee of the new University of Austin.