Peter Frankopan (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian and a professor of global history at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He studies the history of the Byzantine Empire, Anatolia, Russia and the Balkans.
He wrote a book called The First Crusade: The Call from the East and published it in 2012. Frankopan has written two popular books about the Silk Road, one is The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015) the other one is The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (2018). Apart from Byzantine research and Silk Roads studies, Frankopan pays attention to the climate and environment and has published a book entitled The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (2023).