'A Historian spinning plates': Peter Frankopan is profiled in Intelligent Life Magazine. Click the image to view.
For a profile on 'Peter's World' in The Daily Telegraph click here
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, when he took an outstanding first class degree. He was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College before moving to Worcester College as Junior Research Fellow. Peter is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where is also Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He has been Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford since 2000. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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. He is on the board of the Delphi Academy of European Studies. Peter is a judge of the Runciman Award, the EBRD Literature Prize and the Cundill Prize. He is Guest Curator of the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2018. Since 2016, Peter has been a Special Advisor to UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation). In 2017, he 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. In 2017, he was Scaliger Visiting Professor at Leiden University. In the fall of 2017, we was also Presidential Scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles . |
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 collaboration with the British Embassy in Ashgabat.
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.
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 more than two hundred and ninety 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 is an accomplished musician and has recorded many albums as a singer and instrumentalist.
In July 2018, he visited Turkmenistan as a US State Department Speaker, in collaboration with the British Embassy in Ashgabat.
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.
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 more than two hundred and ninety 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 is an accomplished musician and has recorded many albums as a singer and instrumentalist.
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 minor sports. He has played for an England Football XI in charity games against Germany & Brazil at Wembley and 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 Pope's First XI in England and Rome.
In August 2016, he was crowned Single Wicket Champion of All England at Broadhalfpenny Down, where many of cricket's rules and regulations were devised. |
Presenting Pope Francis with his club cap
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Wembley Stadium, 2015 (kneeling, front right)
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