Honorary Presidents

WEXAS is proud to have many of today's leading authors, photographers, explorers and adventurers as Honorary Presidents. Most also sit on the Editorial Board of Traveller magazine.

Kate Adie OBE

is a distinguished BBC foreign correspondent who has spent 30 years reporting from the world's frontlines. Read more

Professor David Bellamy OBE FRGS PHD FIBIOL FLS

is one of the world's leading conservationists, an icon of wildlife television, and founder of the Conservation Foundation. Read more

Colonel John Blashford-Snell OBE

is among Britain's best-known expedition leaders and the founder of Operations Raleigh and Drake for young people. Read more

Dr Jean-Michel Cousteau

is a noted marine scientist, the son of Jacques Cousteau and the founder and president of the Ocean Futures Society. Read more

William Dalrymple MA FRAS FRGS FRSL

is one of Britain's finest travel writers, winner of many literary awards and an expert on India and the Muslim world. Read more

Sir Ranulph Fiennes BT OBE DSC

was dubbed ‘the world's greatest living explorer' by the Guinness Book of Records for such feats as the Transglobe Expedition, the world's first surface journey around the Polar axis. Read more

Clare Francis MBE

is a successful novelist and accomplished yachtswoman. In 1976 she set a new women's record for sailing singlehanded across the Atlantic. Read more

Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE DL MA FRGS

is a pioneering champion of rainforest and tribal peoples, and the president of Survival International. Read more

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE FRINA

was the first man to sail non-stop and singlehanded around the world. He is widely regarded as the sailor's sailor. Read more

Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE OC

is a businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and former Olympian. He is also the chairman of The Ondaatje Foundation. Read more

Michael Palin CBE FRGS

is the world's favourite television traveller and was previously a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Read more

Professor John Prebble BA LLB BCL JSD

is a barrister and professor and the former Dean of Law at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Read more

Dr Christopher Roads MA PHD FRGS

is an expert in the use and history of firearms and former Deputy Director of the Imperial War Museum. Read more

Jonathan Scott

is an award-winning wildlife photographer and presenter of the BBC's long-running nature documentary series, Big Cat Diary, shot in Kenya's Masai Mara. Read more

John Simpson CBE

is the BBC's World Affairs Editor and has reported from more than 120 countries during his 40-year career with the BBC. Read more

Colin Thubron CBE FRGS FRSL

is Britain's most distinguished travel writer whose award-winning books range across Russia, Asia, the Middle East and South America. Read more

Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO

is a leading environmentalist and one of the world's foremost authorities on climate change. He's been an independent environmental advisor to successive UK Prime Ministers. Read more

Sir Hereward Wake BT MC DL

is a baronet and retired major who has been involved in youth expeditions worldwide. Read more