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Annual Lecture: Sir Niall Ferguson

Our Annual Lecture features Sir Niall Ferguson, award-winning Scottish historian and author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. Gain insights from his extensive expertise and influential work on global issues and his latest projects.

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Price
£25 for ROSL Members, £30 for ROSL Guests
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When
Start Date: Wed. 27 November - 18:30
End Date: Wed. 27 November - 19:30
Where
Royal Over-Seas League

About This Event

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, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-winning filmmaker, too, 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 bestseller and was also adapted for television by PBS as Niall Ferguson’s Networld. Between 2020 and 2024 he was a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, before joining 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. His latest book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, was published in 2021 by Penguin and was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. He is currently writing Kissinger, 1969-2023: The Player and serving as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

Ticket includes a glass of fizz after the event.

The talk is open to ROSL members and their named guests only.

This talk will not be live streamed or recorded.

Map & Directions

By Tube

ROSL’s closest tube station is Green Park. Take exit marked Piccadilly, walk past the Ritz Hotel, and turn right onto Arlington Street. At the end of Arlington Street there are some steps, go down these steps and turn right where you will find the entrance courtyard to Over-Seas House.

By Bus

The following buses stop outside Green Park tube station on Piccadilly: numbers C2, 9, 14, 19, 22 and 38, running west to Hyde Park Corner, Victoria and Knightsbridge, and east to Piccadilly Circus and Holborn.

By Car

Travelling west on the A4 (Piccadilly), turn left onto St James’s Street and second right into Park Place cul-de-sac, Over-Seas House is at the end. If there is no space in the Over-Seas car park, alternative parking may be found in the NCP Car Park on Arlington Street off Piccadilly.

Dress Code

Members and their guests are requested to dress in a manner consistent with the character and standing of ROSL when visiting the clubhouse.

Club Rules & Dress Code

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