Peter Frankopan.

Professor of Global History.
Oxford University.

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. He works on the past, present and future of the Eastern Mediterranean, Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East South Asia and China. His books include The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, one of the Sunday Times Books of the Decade 2010-20, and The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World which won the 2019 Carical Prize for social sciences. In 2019, he was named one of the World’s 50 Top Thinkers by Prospect magazine