Charles Ferguson

Documentary Filmmaker

Charles Ferguson is the founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc., and director and producer of No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq (2007) and Inside Job (2010), the story behind the Great Recession which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Ferguson is also a software entrepreneur, writer and authority in technology policy. A graduate of Lowell High School, he earned a BA in mathematics from the UC Berkeley and a PhD in political science from MIT. Ferguson conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms.