Thursday 8 May 2025
07:45
Professor Peter Frankopan
Trump's first 100 days and where we go from here.
Peter will be looking at how Trump’s first 100 days have brought chaos, uncertainty and opportunity. What does that tell us about the next 100 days – and indeed about the next 1280 (when the next US President will be elected)? How does the rest of the world see Donald Trump; how do we separate the signal from the noise? Are these unprecedented times of crisis; or are we all suffering from Trump Derangement syndrome?
Peter is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King’s College, Cambridge. He is a leading expert on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia/Iran, Central Asia and beyond, and on relations between Christianity and Islam.
Peter often writes for the international press, including The New York Times, Financial Times Guardian, and has a regular column in the London Evening Standard. He is the bestselling author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World and The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.
Professor of Global History at Oxford University
Peter is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King’s College, Cambridge. He is a leading expert on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia/Iran, Central Asia and beyond, and on relations between Christianity and Islam.
Peter often writes for the international press, including The New York Times, Financial Times Guardian, and has a regular column in the London Evening Standard. He is the bestselling author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World and The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.