Peter Thiel in conversation with Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson - SOLD OUT

The Harvard Club of the UK has been given a very limited number of tickets to Peter Thiel in conversation with Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson
7:30 pm, April 29, 2015
 The Howard Hall, JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET
Tickets are priced at £25 (non-refundable) and all proceeds will go directly to the Harvard Club of the UK's Outreach Activities 

SOLD OUT
 
Peter Thiel, an entrepreneur and investor, will be in conversation with Niall Ferguson, an author and Professor of History at Harvard University.

Peter and Niall will explore the following topic:

When the Great War broke out exactly one hundred years ago, it brought an abrupt end to the first great age of globalization.

Today globalization is back, but will it continue? Can poorer countries continue to emulate the richest countries without fighting over natural resources or falling into imperial rivalries? Will new technologies ease conflict or add to instability? And have we learned anything at all from the 20th century?
 
 
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance.

He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the "PayPal Mafia." He is a partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb.

He started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking about the future. His book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future was published in 2014.
Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

He has published fourteen books. His first, Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927, was short-listed for the History Today Book of the Year award, while the collection of essays he edited, Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, was a UK bestseller. In 1998 he published to international critical acclaim The Pity of War: Explaining World War One and The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild. The latter won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History and was also short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Literary Award and the American National Jewish Book Award. In 2001, after a year as a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, he published The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.

In 2003 Ferguson wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK terrestrial broadcaster. The accompanying book, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, was a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The sequel, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, was published in 2004 by Penguin, and prompted Time magazine to name him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Two years later he published The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, a television adaptation of which was screened by PBS in 2007. The international bestseller, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, followed in 2008; it too was a PBS series, winning the International Emmy award for Best Documentary, as well as the Handelszeitung Economics Book Prize. In 2011 he published Civilization: The West and the Rest, also a Channel 4/PBS documentary series. A year later came the three-part television series “China: Triumph and Turmoil”.
 
If you miss out on our tickets, they will be available to buy directly from the JW3 box office on March 30th at 9am