Peter Frankopan is best known for changing how leaders understand globalisation, by showing that the world’s centre of gravity has always moved along routes of trade, resources, belief and ambition.

A Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford and the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads, he reframes today’s volatility through deep historical pattern-recognition. His work connects the forces shaping board-level strategy now: shifting supply chains, energy and resource competition, climate pressure, migration, technological diffusion, and geopolitical rivalry.

Rather than treating globalisation as a modern Western project, Frankopan maps it as a long, uneven contest for advantage, and explains why power is increasingly being re-routed eastward and southward while nations simultaneously turn inward. He brings the long view leaders need when the headlines move faster than understanding.