Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and UNESCO Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King's College, Cambridge. His books include The Silk Roads: A New History of the World; The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World; and most recently The Earth Transformed: An Untold History. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographic Society, Professor Frankopan is also President of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs.