In addition to his appointment at Stanford University, Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies at Harvard. He is also the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He has written fifteen books, including The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008) , The Great Degeneration (2010), Kissinger:1923–1968:The Idealist (2015), and The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. His many prizes and awards include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012), the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013), and the Philip Merrill Award (2016). He regularly writes for The Sunday Times and The Boston Globe.