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Professor Frank Dikötter

HKU Chair Professor of Humanities Frank Dikötter has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the prestigious Hoover Institution with effect from September 2017.

Established in 1919 and located at Stanford University in California, the Hoover Institution is one of America’s most academically respected public policy research centers. Professor Dikötter joins a community of more than 100 outstanding scholars and leaders that seeks innovative policy solutions to modern-day challenges. Other Senior Fellows in his field include Niall Ferguson, Robert Service, and Timothy Garton Ash.

Professor Dikötter joined the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong in 2006.

He is the author of the internationally-acclaimed People’s Trilogy about the Great Leap Forward (Mao’s Great Famine, 2010), the initial years of the People’s Republic (The Tragedy of Liberation, 2013) and the Cultural Revolution (The Cultural Revolution, 2016). The first part of the trilogy, Mao’s Great Famine, won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2011, the most prestigious British award for non-fiction. Professor Dikötter was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Leiden University, the Netherlands’ oldest university.