Peter Frankopan — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of Global History at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.
UNESCO Professor of Silk Road Studies at King's College, Cambridge (since 2020).
Author of *The Silk Roads: A New History of the World* (2015).
Author of *The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World* (2018).
Chair, Scientific Committee for UNESCO's Silk Roads Youth Grant Programme (since 2020).
Special Advisor at UNIDO (since 2016).
Holds a D.Phil in History from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Biography

Peter Frankopan is a British historian, writer, and academic, recognized as a professor of global history at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He also serves as the UNESCO Professor of Silk Road Studies at King’s College, Cambridge, a position he has held since 2020.