Honorary graduates 2018/19
Those awarded honorary degrees between 1 August 2018 and 31 July 2019.
Ms Janice Margaret Brown
Company Director, SOCO plc, Member of Board of Directors, Scottish Ballet
Doctor honoris causa
Ms Monica Coenraads
Founder, Executive Director of the Rett Syndrome Research Trust, USA
Doctor honoris causa
Professor Richard Ellis, CBE
Doctor of Science
Professor Alison Etheridge
Doctor of Science
Professor Silvia Federici
Professor Emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, New York
Doctor honoris causa
Dr Naushad Forbes
Co-Chairman, Forbes-Marshall; President, Confederation of Indian Industry (2016-17)
Doctor honoris causa
Mr David James Gow, CBE
Head of SMART Services, NHS Scotland and Inventor of the bionic hand Doctor of Science
Professor Karim Khan
Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Scientific Director Musculoskeletal Heath and Arthritis
Doctor honoris causa
Professor Nicola Lacey, CBE
Criminal law theorist
Doctor of Laws
Professor Jennifer A Lewis
Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Doctor of Science
Mr Sabyasachi Mukherjee
Doctor honoris causa
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
Professor Emeritus Sir Timothy O'Shea
Former Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Edinburgh
Doctor honoris causa
Mr Yun SangKoo
Director, Yun Posun Memorial Foundation
Doctor honoris causa
Professor Yonghua Song
Executive Vice-President, Zhejiang University, China; Founding Dean of International Campus, Zhejiang University
Doctor of Science
Professor Bryan Stevenson
Professor of Clinical Law, NYU Law, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative
Doctor of Laws
Professor William Stirling
Former Director, Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France
Doctor of Science
Mr Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Writer, public intellectual
Doctor of Letters
Professor Andrew Walls
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Honorary Professor, School of Social and Political Science
Doctor of Divinity
The Edinburgh Seven
Sophia Jex-Blake, Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Mary Anderson Marshall, Emily Bovell
Degrees collected on their behalf by a group of current students at Edinburgh Medical School.
Posthumous MBChB
Other distinctions
Professor Helen Sang, Dr Vicky MacRae & Ms Catherine Eastwood
For leading the Roslin Institute’s Athena SWAN related activities, advancing support of gender equality
Principal's Medal for Exceptional Service (joint)