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Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University where he is also Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. His books include The Silk Roads, The New Silk Roads and The First Crusade. In 2019, he was named one of the World’s 50 Top Thinkers by Prospect Magazine.

Session

Corona Chronicles: The Past, Present and Future of Pandemics

Siddhartha Mukherjee and Peter Frankopan in conversation

Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulizer winner and one of India's greatest medical minds, talks to Oxford historian Peter Frankopan, who predicted the outbreak of a major pandemic six months before it happened