Honorary Graduates in 2019
Recipients of Honorary Degrees s to be awarded in 2019.
| Honorary/ Benefactor | Position | Award | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Yonghua Song | Executive Vice-President, Zhejiang University, China; Founding Dean of International Campus, Zhejiang University | Doctor of Science | Saturday 29 June 2019 | 11.00am |
| Professor Alison Etheridge | Professor of Probability, Department of Statistics, Oxford | Doctor of Science | Monday 1 July 2019 | 11.00am |
| Professor Richard Ellis, CBE | Professor of Astrophysics, University College London; Visiting Professor UoE | Doctor of Science | Monday 1 July 2019 | 3.00pm |
| Ms Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen | Convener of Mission 2020 and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | Doctor honoris causa | Wednesday 3 July 2019 | 11.00am |
| Professor Jennifer A Lewis | Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University | Doctor of Science | Wednesday 3 July 2019 | 3.00pm |
| Professor Silvia Federici | Professor Emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, New York | Doctor honoris causa | Thursday 4 July 2019 | 3.00pm |
| Professor Karim Khan | Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Scientific Director Musculoskeletal Heath and Arthritis | Doctor honoris causa | Friday 5 July 2019 | 11.00am |
| Professor Emeritus Sir Timothy O'Shea | Former Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Edinburgh | Doctor honoris causa | Friday 5 July 2019 | 3.00pm |
| The Edinburgh Seven | Sophia Jex-Blake, Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Mary Anderson Marshall, Emily Bovell | Posthumous MBChB | Saturday 6 July 2019 | 11.00am |
| Ms Monica Coenraads | Founder, Executive Director of the Rett Syndrome Research Trust, USA | Doctor honoris causa | Saturday 6 July 2019 | 3.00pm |
| Dr Naushad Forbes | Co-Chairman, Forbes-Marshall; President, Confederation of Indian Industry (2016-17) | Doctor honoris causa | Monday 8 July 2019 | 11.00am |
| Mr Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Writer, public intellectual | Doctor of Letters | Monday 8 July 2019 | 3.00pm |
| Professor Bryan Stevenson | Professor of Clinical Law, NYU Law, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative | Doctor of Laws | Tuesday 9 July 2019 | 11.00am |
| Mr Yun SangKoo | Director, Yun Posun Memorial Foundation | Doctor honoris causa | Tuesday 9 July 2019 | 3.00pm |
| Ms Janice Margaret Brown | Company Director, SOCO plc, Member of Board of Directors, Scottish Ballet | Doctor honoris causa | Wednesday 10 July 2019 | 11.00am |
| Ms Carrie Gracie | Former BBC International Editor, China | Doctor of Letters | November 2019 | |
| Professor Fernando D Martinez | Regents’ Professor of Pediatrics, Univ. of Arizona College of Medicine & Director of the Arizona Respiratory Center | Doctor of Medicine | November 2019 | |
| Professor Dame Caroline Dean | Project Leader in Cell & Molecular Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich | Doctor of Science | November 2019 | |
| Ms Karina McTeague | Director of Retail Banking Supervision at the Financial Conduct Authority | Doctor of Laws | November 2019 | |
| Professor Michael Rosbash | Peter Gruber Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University; Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Doctor of Science | November 2019 |