Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., 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 sixteen books, including Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. In addition to writing a syndicated weekly column, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, an advisory firm. He is also a founder and member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Austin, America's newest university, where he will also be teaching a class in the Fall of 2024.