'A Historian spinning plates': Peter Frankopan is profiled in Intelligent Life Magazine. Click the image to view.
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Peter talking in Istanbul 2017
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Peter read History at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was Foundation Scholar, Schiff Scholar and won the History Prize in 1993. He was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford before moving to Worcester College, Oxford where he has been Senior Research Fellow since 2000.
Peter is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He is Associate Director of the Programme of Silk Roads Studies at King's College, Cambridge. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Anthropological Institute, Peter is President of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs. Peter has held visiting Fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard) and Princeton, and has lectured at universities all over the world including Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and NYU. In 2017, he was appointed Scaliger Visiting Professor at Leiden University, and Presidential Scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Peter is currently Chair of jury for the Runciman Award, the Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature and the Cundill History Prize. Since 2016, Peter has been involved with the 'Bridge for Cities' Programme of UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation). In 2017, Peter was appointed Senior Advisor and Academic Expert to a major project for the World Bank and Department for International Development (DfID) on Transport Corridors in South Asia. He is also works closely with UNESCO, the Asian Development Bank, multi-lateral institutions and governments on issues ranging from geopolitics, security, energy and transport infrastructure and climate change. He was named one of the World's 50 Top Thinkers by Prospect Magazine in 2019. Peter has been a member of the Advisory Council of the British Library since 2020. |
In June 2018, Peter gave the keynote to mark Austria taking over the Presidency of the European Union at an event in Vienna attended by all 28 EU State Secretaries and Secretary Generals.
In July 2018, he visited Turkmenistan as a US State Department Speaker, in association with the British Embassy in Ashgabat. In December 2018, Peter marked the end of the European Year of Culture, giving the keynote lecture in Vienna. In 2019, he gave the opening keynote lecture of the Singapore Bicentennial Conference.
In January 2020, he helped launch Ireland's Asia-Pacific Strategy to 2025 at the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In September 2020, he chaired a meeting of ministers from China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Georgi for the Central Asian Regional Economic Co-operation (CAREC) program of the ADB.
Vogue India wrote about Peter in 2016. You can also read a profile in Oxford Today here. Or long interviews in Good Times (Pakistan); La Vanguardia (Spain); RNC (Holland) Knack (Belgium); and Das Erste (Germany). His work is regularly discussed on Chinese state television. He has been profiled in China Daily, by La Nación (Argentina) and elsewhere.
Peter is 'the history rock star du jour', according to Tim Shipman, Political Editor of the Sunday Times. He is 'fearless and brilliant', says The Daily Sabah.
Peter chairs a collection of family businesses in the UK, France, Croatia and the Netherlands, including A Curious Group of Hotels which he set up with his wife Jessica in 1999.
He is actively involved with several charities, mainly in the areas of education, international development, gender studies and classical music. Both he and Jessica are Companions of the Guild of Benefactors at Cambridge University. He has been a Governor of Wellington College since 2006.
He chairs the Frankopan Fund, which has granted almost four hundred scholarships and awards to outstanding young scholars from Croatia to study at leading academic institutions in the UK, USA and Europe.
A chorister at Westminster Cathedral as a boy, music scholar at school and choral scholar at Cambridge, he has recorded many albums including the Mozart Requiem, the Duruflé Requiem and the Allegri Miserere.
In July 2018, he visited Turkmenistan as a US State Department Speaker, in association with the British Embassy in Ashgabat. In December 2018, Peter marked the end of the European Year of Culture, giving the keynote lecture in Vienna. In 2019, he gave the opening keynote lecture of the Singapore Bicentennial Conference.
In January 2020, he helped launch Ireland's Asia-Pacific Strategy to 2025 at the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In September 2020, he chaired a meeting of ministers from China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Georgi for the Central Asian Regional Economic Co-operation (CAREC) program of the ADB.
Vogue India wrote about Peter in 2016. You can also read a profile in Oxford Today here. Or long interviews in Good Times (Pakistan); La Vanguardia (Spain); RNC (Holland) Knack (Belgium); and Das Erste (Germany). His work is regularly discussed on Chinese state television. He has been profiled in China Daily, by La Nación (Argentina) and elsewhere.
Peter is 'the history rock star du jour', according to Tim Shipman, Political Editor of the Sunday Times. He is 'fearless and brilliant', says The Daily Sabah.
Peter chairs a collection of family businesses in the UK, France, Croatia and the Netherlands, including A Curious Group of Hotels which he set up with his wife Jessica in 1999.
He is actively involved with several charities, mainly in the areas of education, international development, gender studies and classical music. Both he and Jessica are Companions of the Guild of Benefactors at Cambridge University. He has been a Governor of Wellington College since 2006.
He chairs the Frankopan Fund, which has granted almost four hundred scholarships and awards to outstanding young scholars from Croatia to study at leading academic institutions in the UK, USA and Europe.
A chorister at Westminster Cathedral as a boy, music scholar at school and choral scholar at Cambridge, he has recorded many albums including the Mozart Requiem, the Duruflé Requiem and the Allegri Miserere.
Playing in a match to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Wisden
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 Bat aloft
A keen sportsman, Peter won blues at both Oxford and Cambridge for Fives. He has represented Croatia at cricket. He plays cricket for the Authors CC, who in recent years, have toured India and Sri Lanka, and played against the Vatican in England and Rome.
In August 2016, he won the Single Wicket Championship of All England at Broadhalfpenny Down, where many of cricket's rules and regulations were devised. He has also played football at Wembley Stadium to raise money for charity. |
Presenting Pope Francis with his club cap
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Wembley Stadium, 2015 (kneeling, front right)
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