# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-barnett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:16:31.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-barnett"
name: "Robert Barnett"
slug: "robert-barnett"
description: "Robert Barnett is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London and Affiliate Lecturer and Research Affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King's College, London. He is the former Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program, where he was Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Tibetan Studies and Senior Research Scholar in modern Tibetan history at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He retired from Columbia as of January 2018. He is also referred to as Robbie Barnett by the media."
tagline: "British-American Tibetologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tibet_scholar_Robbie_Barnett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.342117333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "羅伯·巴聶特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرت بارنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Barnett"
    title: "Robert J. Barnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barnett_(scholar)"
    title: "Robert Barnett (scholar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barnett"
    title: "Robert Barnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Barnett"
    title: "Robert J. Barnett"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump