Honorary doctorates of King's

Honorary doctorates of King’s

Honorary doctorates of King’s have been presented to four highly distinguished recipients at a special ceremony in the Chapel at King’s Strand Campus, London WC2, on Wednesday 26 October.

The new King’s honorary doctors are:

Professor Thomas Jessell FRS, an internationally distinguished neuroscientist who is the Claire Tow Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University; and co-director of the Mortimer B Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, at Columbia. Professor Jessell is an alumnus of Chelsea College London, which merged with King’s in 1985.

Professor Mona Siddiqui OBE FRSE, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh; Assistant Principal for Religion and Society, and International Dean for the Middle East. She is well known internationally as an academic, intellectual and speaker on issues concerning religion, ethics and public life.

The 9th Duke of Wellington OBE DL, Chairman of the King’s College Council from 2007 to July 2016. He is an elected representative Hereditary Peer in the House of Lords and a former Member of the European Parliament. He has served in many roles in business, charity and the arts, including as a Commissioner for English Heritage and a member of the Council of the Royal College of Art, and recently wrote a history of the portraits of the 1st Duke of Wellington.

Professor Ke Yang, Executive Vice President of Peking University and a distinguished cancer researcher. From 2004 to 2016 she was also Executive Vice President of Peking University Health Science Center, leading China’s most prestigious medical faculty through a series of outstanding achievements in education, health care services and research.