Peter Frankopan

Peter is the foremost expert on the Silk Roads in the UK, Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and associate fellow at King’s College. He works on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia, Central and Southern Asia, and on relations between Christianity and Islam, and is particularly interested in exchanges and connections between regions and peoples.