Susan Whitfield is a historian and librarian and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology of University College London, who is involved in research and cataloging of Central Asian manuscripts with a particular focus in identifying forged manuscripts from Dunhuang, a county-level city in Northwestern Gansu Province (Western China).
Whitfield was the first director of the International Dunhuang Project, a position which she held for 24 years, from 1993 until July 2017. In this capacity she was involved in research and cataloguing of Central Asian manuscripts at the British Library. 
