Graduation ceremonies 22 and 23 January 2016 The Honorary Graduands

The Honorary Graduands

Every year the University of Roy Hodgson York confers the honorary Roy Hodgson was appointed manager of the England degree of Doctor of the national football team on 1 May 2012. His 36-year career as a manager began with Swedish University honoris causa club Halmstad in 1976 and England is the fourth national on distinguished people. team he has managed. Roy Hodgson had three years in The recipients come from charge of Switzerland, guiding them to the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup in 1994 and qualification for UEFA Euro many walks of life and all 96, though he left before the finals. The Swiss hadn’t have made a significant qualified for a major tournament since 1966. He also spent a year as manager of Finland, lifting them to their contribution to society. highest FIFA ranking, and two years with the United Arab Emirates. Honorary graduands are At club level Roy Hodgson managed top clubs like Internazionale and Udinese, selected from nominations Blackburn Rovers, Malmo, FC Copenhagen and Grasshoppers. After his spell by members of the University with the Finnish national side he became manager of Fulham in 2007. He took over at Liverpool in June 2010 but had switched to West Bromwich and very often have links Albion by February 2011, keeping them in a mid-table position in the Premier with departments or alumni. League that season. Roy Hodgson speaks several languages and has served on FIFA and UEFA technical study groups. He is the England team’s 13th permanent manager.

Professor Chris Somerville Professor Somerville is a pioneering plant and microbial biologist. He is currently the Philomathia Professor of Alternative Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute. A professor at Michigan State University from 1982– 1993, Professor Somerville moved to Stanford University in 1994, where he served as Professor and Director of the Carnegie Institution for Science until 2007. Beginning in the late 1970s, Professor Somerville and several colleagues started to organise a community around a suite of experimental methods for understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying plant growth and development in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The community grew to more than 16,000 scientists and the research culminated in the first plant genome sequence in 2000. Most recently his research is investigating biofuel production from plant biomass. A member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Canada, he has received numerous scientific , and co- founded six scientific journals and four biotechnology companies. He has published more than 230 scientific papers and patents in plant and microbial genetics, genomics, biochemistry, and biotechnology. Graduation ceremonies 22 and 23 January 2016 The Honorary Graduands

Professor The Lord Darzi of Denham pc, kbe, frs Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo A Professor Darzi is an Honorary Dallaire oc, cmm, goq, msc, cd (Retired) Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College The Honourable Roméo Dallaire Healthcare NHS Trust and holds the Paul achieved the rank of Lieutenant Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial General and Assistant Deputy Minister College London, the Royal Marsden of Human Resources in the Canadian Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Military. He served as a Canadian Research. He is also Director of the Senator from March 2005 to June 2014. Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and Chair of General Dallaire commanded the Imperial College Health Partners. United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda. His experiences there became Leading research in best surgical practice, from innovation in the subject of the book Shake Hands surgery to enhancing patient safety and quality in healthcare, with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Medically Professor Darzi has published over 800 peer-reviewed released in 2000 due to post-traumatic stress disorder, research papers. In 2007, he became a peer and was appointed General Dallaire has since worked as an author, lecturer, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department humanitarian. of Health. From 2009 to 2013, he was the United Kingdom’s Global Ambassador for Health and Life Sciences and he has His most recent book, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die been a member of the Privy Council since 2009. Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers, introduces the child solider phenomenon. In 2007, he He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of founded the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative with the Engineering, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and mission to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers globally. a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2002, he was knighted for his services to medicine and surgery. General Dallaire is an Officer of the of Canada, a Grand Officer of the National Order of , and a Commander of the Order of Military Merit. Among other honours, he has The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury received the United Nations Association of Canada’s Pearson Peace Medal and the Harvard University Humanist . Lord Neuberger is a judge and has been President of the UK’s Supreme Court since 2012, covering English, Edmund de Waal, obe Welsh and Northern Irish law and Scottish civil law. A Lord of Appeal Edmund de Waal is one of the world’s in Ordinary, he became Master of the leading artists. He studied English Rolls in 2009. at the University of Cambridge and ceramics in both England and Japan. Educated at Oxford University, he He is best known for his large-scale was called to the Bar in 1974, becoming installations of porcelain vessels, a Queen’s Counsel in 1987. In 1996, he which have been exhibited in many was appointed High Court Judge in the Chancery Division. museums and galleries around the Serving as Supervisory Chancery Judge of the Midlands, Wales, world, including the Victoria and Chester and the Western Circuits, he was appointed a Lord Albert Museum, Tate Britain, the Justice of Appeal and a Privy Councillor in 2004. In 2007, he National Museums of Scotland and Wales and most recently, was made a life peer as Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury. He led the Royal Academy. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with a Bar Council investigation into widening access to the Bar, and Amber Eyes, has been published in over 30 languages and won served on the Panel on Fair Access to the profession. the Costa Biography Award and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Edmund de Waal was recently awarded the Chairman of the Schizophrenia Trust from 2003 until 2013, prestigious Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction, given Baron Neuberger is now a Trustee of Mental Health Research annually by Yale University. His latest book, The White Road: UK. He also serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong A Pilgrimage of Sorts, was published in September by Chatto Kong Court of Final Appeal. & Windus. He currently lives and works in London. Graduation ceremonies 22 and 23 January 2016 The Honorary Graduands

Armando Iannucci Armando Iannucci is a writer and broadcaster who has written and produced a number of critically acclaimed television and radio comedy shows. The screenplay for his film In The Loop (starring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander and James Gandolfini) was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards, and his iconic series for the BBC, The Thick of It, was nominated for 13 BAFTA Awards, winning five during its four-series run. The latest series of his lauded HBO comedy Veep took home a number of Emmy awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. He is currently adapting a new version of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield for the big screen, as well as a feature film about the death of Stalin. Armando Iannucci has been a regular columnist for The Observer, The Telegraph and Gramophone, and has had a number of books published.