牛津大学2024年度盛典颁发六位荣誉博士

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• （大卫）沃伦·伊斯特（CBE、FRS、FREng、FIET、FRAeS、FBCS）是一位英国工程师和商人。2014年新年荣誉勋章授予他CBE称号，以表彰他“对科技行业的贡献”。在牛津大学学习工程科学后，沃伦获得了克兰菲尔德大学工商管理硕士学位。在加入ARM控股公司之前，他在德州仪器公司工作了11年，并于2001年出任首席执行官。随后，沃伦被任命为罗尔斯·罗伊斯控股公司的首席执行官，任期为2015年至2022年。他目前是专注核聚变的托卡马克能源的非执行董事、荷兰阿斯麦半导体公司的监事会成员、英国化学公司C-Capture的主席，并担任美国氢能企业Avina Clean Hydrogen的顾问委员会成员。沃伦是牛津大学赛德商学院的驻校高管和牛津大学瓦德汉书院的名誉学者。

• 德米斯·哈萨比斯爵士是英国计算机科学家、人工智能学者和企业家（CBE、PhD、FRS、FREng）。2024年，德米斯因在人工智能领域的贡献被授予爵士勋章。德米斯是谷歌DeepMind的联合创始人兼首席执行官，该公司在人工智能领域取得了许多里程碑式的突破，例如 AlphaGo是第一个在复杂的围棋游戏中击败世界冠军的程序。2020 年，DeepMind的人工智能系统AlphaFold通过准确预测蛋白质的3D形状解决了50年来蛋白质结构预测的重大挑战。17岁时，德米斯与他人共同设计了销量数百万的人工智能模拟视频游戏《主题公园》。从剑桥大学计算机科学专业毕业后，他创立了电子游戏开发公司Elixir Studios。德米斯在伦敦大学学院获得认知神经科学博士学位，并在麻省理工学院和哈佛大学继续博士后研究，之后创立了DeepMind。德米斯因其研究成果获得了许多国际奖项，并且是英国皇家学会和皇家工程院院士。

• 恩戈齐·奥孔乔-伊韦阿拉博士是尼日利亚经济学家，也是世界贸易组织第七任总干事。她于2021年上任，成为首位担任该职位的女性和非洲人。2022年，奥孔乔-伊韦阿拉博士被授予尼日尔勋章，这是尼日利亚的第二高荣誉。她目前担任世界经济论坛董事会成员，并担任全球水资源经济学委员会联合主席。此前，奥孔乔-伊韦阿拉博士是第一位担任尼日利亚财政部长的女性，并曾连任两届任期七年，还曾短暂担任第一位女性外交部长。奥孔乔-伊韦阿拉博士还曾在世界银行工作25年，并于2007年被任命为常务副行长。她获得了无数荣誉，并于2019年被选为美国艺术与科学学院国际荣誉院士。

从左往右：沃伦·伊斯特、德米斯·哈萨比斯爵士和恩戈齐·奥孔乔-伊韦阿拉博士

• 迈克尔·帕林爵士（KCMG，CBE，FRGS，FRSGS，FRSL）是一名演员、喜剧家、作家和电视节目主持人。2019年，他因“对旅游、文化和地理的贡献”被授予爵士称号。迈克尔爵士编剧并主演了众多电视节目和电影，从《蒙提·派森》和《夭书奇谈》到《一条叫旺达的鱼》和《斯大林之死》。他还拍摄了几部广受好评的旅行纪录片；他的旅程带他去了北极和南极、撒哈拉沙漠、喜马拉雅山、东欧和巴西。2009年至2012年，他担任皇家地理学会会长。他的作品包括他的旅行记录、小说、非小说、儿童读物、戏剧和多卷日记。迈克尔爵士曾多次获得英国电影学院奖，并于2020年获得国家电视奖特别表彰奖。2013年，他还获得了英国电影学院奖终身成就奖。

• 安诺舒卡·香卡是一位英裔印度裔美国音乐家、西塔琴演奏家、作曲家和制作人。安诺舒卡从小在父亲拉维·香卡的指导下学习西塔琴，13岁时首次登台表演。自17岁发行首张个人专辑以来，她已经制作了10张录音室专辑、3张现场专辑和大量合作录音。她获得的荣誉包括9项格莱美奖提名、一项艾弗·诺韦洛原创音乐奖提名、多项Eastern Eye ACTA奖和一项音乐杂志Songlines最佳艺术家奖。安诺舒卡经常与联合国难民署和慈善机构Choose Love等组织合作，为难民危机筹集资金并提高人们的认识。她还直言不讳地讲述自己的经历，支持反对性别暴力的“十亿人崛起”等活动。安诺舒卡是皇家音乐学院的荣誉会员，也是首批被英国最大考试委员会纳入A-Level音乐教学大纲的女性作曲家之一。

• 萨利姆·尤素福教授是国际知名的加拿大心脏病专家和流行病学家，40多年来，他的工作对心血管疾病的预防和治疗产生了重大影响。尤素福教授目前担任加拿大麦克马斯特大学杰出大学医学教授和加拿大人口健康研究所执行主任。他是安大略省心脏和中风基金会研究主席，并于 2023年当选为牛津大学圣约翰书院的名誉学者。他曾于2015-16年担任世界心脏联盟主席。尤素福教授出生于印度，在班加罗尔圣约翰医学院学习医学，之后以罗德学者身份在牛津大学获得博士学位。尤素福教授因其研究获得了75多个国际和国家奖项，包括世界心脏联盟终身成就奖。他是2020年加拿大皇家学会麦克劳克林奖章的获得者，并于2013年被任命为加拿大勋章官员。

从左往右：迈克尔·帕林爵士、安诺舒卡·香卡和萨利姆·尤素福教授

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• (David) Warren EastCBE, FRS, FREng, FIET, FRAeS, FBCS is a British engineer and businessperson. He was appointed CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours ‘for services to the technology industry’. After studying Engineering Science at Oxford University, Warren earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Cranfield University. He spent 11 years with Texas Instruments before joining ARM Holdings, where he was made CEO in 2001. Warren was then appointed to lead Rolls-Royce Holdings as CEO from 2015–2022. He is currently a non-executive director at Tokamak Energy, a member of the supervisory board at ASML NV, chair of C-Capture, and serves on the advisory board for Avina Clean Hydrogen. Warren is an Executive in Residence at the Saïd Business School at Oxford and an Honorary Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. 

• Sir Demis Hassabis, CBE, PhD, FRS, FREng, is a British computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. In 2024, Demis was awarded a knighthood for services to Artificial Intelligence. Demis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, which has been responsible for numerous landmark AI breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the complex game of Go. In 2020, DeepMind’s AI system AlphaFold solved the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction by accurately predicting the 3D shape of proteins. Aged 17, Demis co-designed the multi-million selling AI simulation video game Theme Park. After graduating from Cambridge University in Computer Science, he founded videogames developer Elixir Studios. Demis completed a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL and continued his postdoctoral studies at MIT and Harvard before founding DeepMind. Demis has won many international awards for his research and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealais a Nigerian economist and the seventh Director General of the World Trade Organization. She took office in 2021, becoming the first woman and the first African to hold the position. In 2022, Dr Okonjo-Iweala became the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON), Nigeria's second highest honour. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum and co-chairs the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. Previously, Dr Okonjo-Iweala became the first woman to serve as Nigeria’s Finance Minister, a post she held for seven years in two terms, and also served briefly as the first female Foreign Affairs Minister. A 25-year career at the World Bank culminated in Dr Okonjo-Iweala being appointed Managing Director in 2007. She is the recipient of numerous honours and in 2019 was inducted as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Left to right: Warren East, Sir Demis Hassabis and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

• Sir Michael Palin, KCMG, CBE, FRGS, FRSGS, FRSL is an actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was knighted in 2019 for ‘services to travel, culture and geography’. Sir Michael has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to A Fish Called Wanda and The Death of Stalin. He has also made several much-acclaimed travel documentaries; his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe and Brazil. From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society. His writing includes accounts of his journeys, fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, plays and several volumes of diaries. Sir Michael is the recipient of a number of BAFTA Awards and received the National Television Award for Special Recognition in 2020. He was also recognised with a BAFTA fellowship in 2013. 

• Anoushka Shankaris a British-Indian-American musician, sitarist, composer and producer. Anoushka began studying the sitar as a child under her father, Ravi Shankar, and made her performing debut aged 13. Since releasing her first solo album at 17, she has made ten studio albums, three live albums and numerous collaborative recordings. Among her accolades are nine Grammy nominations, an Ivor Novello Award nomination, a number of Eastern Eye ACTA awards and a Songlines Best Artist Award. Anoushka frequently works with organisations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Choose Love, to raise funds and awareness for the refugee crisis. She has also been outspoken about her own experiences, supporting campaigns such as One Billion Rising. Anoushka is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music and was one of the first female composers to be added to the A-Level music syllabus by one of Britain’s biggest exam boards. 

• Professor Salim Yusuf, OC, FRSC, FRCPC is an internationally renowned Canadian cardiologist and epidemiologist, whose work over 40 years has substantially influenced prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Among his current affiliations, Professor Yusuf is Distinguished University Professor of Medicine at McMaster University and Executive Director of the Population Health Research Institute, Canada. He holds a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Research Chair and in 2023 was elected as an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He was President of the World Heart Federation, 2015–16. Professor Yusuf was born in India and studied medicine at St John’s Medical College in Bangalore, before earning a DPhil at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. Professor Yusuf has received more than 75 international and national awards for his research including a World Heart Federation Lifetime Achievement Award. He was the 2020 recipient of the McLaughlin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada and appointed an Officer in the Order of Canada in 2013.

Left to right: Sir Michael Palin, Anoushka Shankar and Professor Salim Yusuf

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