Sir David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough with Queen's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Peter Gregson
A British broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough's career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years.
He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of life on our planet.
He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two, and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won a BAFTA in black and white, colour, HD and 3D.
