Honorary Presidents of WEXAS
WEXAS are proud to be associated with the following Honorary Presidents, who also sit on the Honorary Editorial Board of Traveller.
Kate Adie OBE
Kate Adie, the BBC’s chief news reporter for 14 years, became one of the most recognisable faces on television as she reported from war zones around the globe. Her reports include coverage of events from the Gulf War, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Rwanda, China and Sierra Leone. Read more
Professor David Bellamy OBE
David Bellamy is a professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner. He has written more than 40 books and 80 scientific papers relating to ecology and the environment and, having presented on more than 400 television programmes, his larger-than-life character is now known to millions. Read more
Colonel John Blashford-Snell OBE
Colonel John Blashford-Snell is one of the world’s most renowned explorers. He launched Operation Raleigh and, with colleagues, formed the Scientific Exploration Society, where he is President. He has led more than 100 expeditions and pioneered white water rafting. Read more
Dr Jean-Michel Cousteau
Dr Jean-Michel Cousteau is an explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer. As Executive Vice President of The Cousteau Society for almost 20 years and as Founder and President of Ocean Futures Society he has met with leaders and policymakers around the globe, from grassroots level to the highest echelons of government and business. Read more
William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s finest travel writers and an expert on the India and the Muslim world. His first book, In Xanadu, became a highly acclaimed bestseller and was written when he was only 22. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award and set the course for his future works. Read more
Sir Ranulph Fiennes BT OBE
Sir Ranulph Fiennes was dubbed by The Guinness Book of Records ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’, for such feats as the 52,000 mile Transglobe Expedtion – the world’s first surface journey around the polar axis – and the North Polar Unsupported Expedition – furthest north unsupported record. Read more
Clare Francis
Clare Francis is a successful novelist who has sailed solo across the Atlantic, taken part in the Round Britain Race with Eve Bonham, the Azores and Back Single-handed Race, the Observer Single-handed Transatlantic Race and the Whitbread Round the World Race - together with a crew of 11 people. She is a WEXAS Honorary President, but does not sit on Traveller’s Honorary Editorial Board. Read more
Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE
Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a joint-founder of Survival International, the NGO that supports tribal peoples, and its President. Named by the Sunday Times in 1984 as ‘the greatest explorer of the past 20 years’, he has embarked on countless expeditions. Read more
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is the first person to have sailed, single-handed and non-stop, around the world. Since that voyage in 1968-69 he has gone on to sail across more than half a million miles of the world’s oceans, mark up a number of other records and achievements – including winning the Jules Verne Trophy – and become known as the sailor’s sailor. Read more
Michael Palin CBE
Michael Palin is the world’s favourite television traveller who came to fame as part of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the sketch show that reinvented comedy on television. Read more
Professor John Prebble
John Prebble is a barrister and professor and former dean of law at Victoria University, Wellington in New Zealand. He has written or edited 12 books and more than 200 articles for professional and scholarly journals and is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amersterdam, and also appears on the Editorial Boards of several scholarly periodicals.
Dr Christopher Roads
Dr Christopher Roads is an expert in the use and history of firearms and the former Deputy Director of the Imperial War Museum.
Jonathan Scott
Jonathan Scott is an award-winning photographer and presenter for a number of television programmes, including Big Cat Diary for the BBC. He is also the author of several books and publishes limited edition pen and ink drawings. Read more
John Simpson CBE
John Simpson is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor. His career with the corporation spans over 40 years and has seen him visit more than 120 countries and interview around 150 kings, presidents and prime ministers. Read more
Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron is Britain’s most distinguished travel writer, an award-winning author whose books cover Asia and Russia. He has also written a number of novels. Read more
Sir Crispin Tickell
Sir Crispin Tickell is one of the world’s foremost authorities on climate change. He is a leading environmentalist and has been an independent environmental advisor to successive UK Prime Ministers. His time is spent educating and advising governments, scientists, businesses and universities around the world on the importance of sustainable development. Read more
Sir Hereward Wake BT
Sir Hereward Wake is able to trace his family back 1,000 years to the time when Hereward the Wake defied William the Conqueror on the Isle of Ely. He holds one of England’s oldest baronetcies and his family have lived in Northamptonshire for more than 800 years. Read more
