Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. He is also Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King’s College, Cambridge. His bookThe Silk Roads: A New History of the World became a global bestseller, topping charts in the UK, China and India, selling over 1.5 million copies and appearing in more than thirty languages. Its sequel, The New Silk Roads, won the 2019 Human Sciences Prize of the Carical Foundation. His most recent book, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, reinterprets global history through climate and environmental change. Peter is a Fellow of multiple learned societies, a special adviser to the UN and a senior adviser to the World Bank. Prospect named him one of the world’s fifty leading thinkers.
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