Susan Whitfield is an Engish 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. 
