On March 15, 2017, Professor QIAN Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM), will hold a dialogue with renowned historian Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua SEM, on the topic of “Trumpworld? The Consequences of the 2016 U.S. Election for Economic Globalization and International Order.”

Professor Niall Ferguson

Professor Ferguson is a renowned historian in financial history, economic history, business history and world history. He is the author of fourteen books, including Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927, Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, The Pity of War: Explaining World War One, The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild, and The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.

Professor Ferguson is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2004, due to the success of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. An accomplished biographer, Ferguson published High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg in 2010 and is currently writing a life of Henry Kissinger, the first volume of which has just been published—to critical acclaim—as Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist. In 2011, his film company Chimerica Media released its first feature-length documentary, “Kissinger”, which won the New York Film Festival’s prize for Best Documentary. Moreover, he is a prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics, and writes regularly for newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic.

On November 3, 2014, Niall Ferguson was appointed as the Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua SEM. He will offer a 2-credit course at Tsinghua SEM in each academic year for the School’s undergraduates to fulfill the School’s “China and the World” requirement in general education, starting from the spring semester of 2014-15.

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