'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
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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 Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He is also UNESCO Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King's College, Cambridge. Peter is a member of the Advisory Board of the Sevgi Gönül Center for Byzantine Studies at Koç University, Istanbul. 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. In 2019-20, Peter Peter was Chair of jury for the Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature and the Cundill History Prize. He Chair of the Judges of the Runciman Award 2019-23. In 2023-24, he is Chair of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is co-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the SIlk Roads Youth Research Grant at UNESCO as well as the wider Silk Roads programme. He is part a Leverhulme prize team working on the rivers of Central Asia, looking at climatic changes in antiquity, late antiquity and around the time of the Mongol conquests. 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, UNDP, the Asian Development Bank, as well as 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. In 2021, Peter was awarded the Medal of the 30th Anniversary of the Independence of Uzbekistan by Presidential Decree in recognition of his work to promote the history, peoples and culture of Central Asia. Peter has been a member of the Advisory Council of the British Library since 2020. |
In May 2024, Peter was in Tbilisi to chair a meeting on decarbonistion of supply chains and on climate financing for the ADB at their 59th Annual Meeting in Tbilisi.
In April 2024, Peter chaired a session at a meeting on UK-Uzbek relations at the Centre for Islamic Studies at Oxford.
In April 2024, Peter moderated a session at the United Nations in New York for the Human Development Report 2024 at the invitation of UNDP.
May 2023, Peter gave expert evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament in London on the UK's engagement in Central Asia.
In May 2023, Peter was in Islamabad to discuss Climate Change and its implications for Pakistan at the Islamabad Security Dialogue.
In the spring of 2023, Peter spoke at a major conference at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on Climate Change, Health and Food Security in Muslim Societies
In December 2021, Peter took part in the Dialogue of Continents meeting with ministers, senior offficials adn scholars from across Central Asia, Europe and the US.
In 2021, Peter took part in the Islamabad Security Dialogue to discuss CPEC and Pakistan's relations with China.
In 2020, Peter 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 and authored the post-pandemic economic recovery plan for these countries.
In January 2020, he helped launch Ireland's Asia-Pacific Strategy to 2025 at the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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.
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); World Times (Pakistan) 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 was a Governor of Wellington College (2006-2020).
He chairs the Frankopan Fund, which has granted almost five 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 April 2024, Peter chaired a session at a meeting on UK-Uzbek relations at the Centre for Islamic Studies at Oxford.
In April 2024, Peter moderated a session at the United Nations in New York for the Human Development Report 2024 at the invitation of UNDP.
May 2023, Peter gave expert evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament in London on the UK's engagement in Central Asia.
In May 2023, Peter was in Islamabad to discuss Climate Change and its implications for Pakistan at the Islamabad Security Dialogue.
In the spring of 2023, Peter spoke at a major conference at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on Climate Change, Health and Food Security in Muslim Societies
In December 2021, Peter took part in the Dialogue of Continents meeting with ministers, senior offficials adn scholars from across Central Asia, Europe and the US.
In 2021, Peter took part in the Islamabad Security Dialogue to discuss CPEC and Pakistan's relations with China.
In 2020, Peter 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 and authored the post-pandemic economic recovery plan for these countries.
In January 2020, he helped launch Ireland's Asia-Pacific Strategy to 2025 at the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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.
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); World Times (Pakistan) 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 was a Governor of Wellington College (2006-2020).
He chairs the Frankopan Fund, which has granted almost five 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 unofficial 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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