Wade Davis(2018)
Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is currently a Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. The author of 22 books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, which won the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and a doctorate in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Davis is the recipient of the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the 2011 Explorers Medal, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration, the 2017 Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award, the 2017 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration, and the 2018 Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
