Four New Honorary Fellows

We are pleased to share that the College has elected four new distinguished individuals to its Honorary Fellowship.

Professor Malik Peiris

1977 DPhil Virology

Malik Peiris is Chair of Virology at the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, co-directing the WHO H5 and the WHO SARS-CoV-2 reference laboratories. He is a clinical and public health virologist with a particular interest in emerging viral diseases at the animal-human interface – using a “One-Health” approach. His research encompasses pathogenesis, innate immune responses, transmission, ecology and epidemiology of human and animal influenza viruses and coronaviruses.

Angela Saini

1999 MEng Engineering Science

Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist and author. Her fourth book, The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, published in Spring 2023, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic, New Scientist and Wired. In 2022, she was a Logan Nonfiction Program Fellow in New York and a Resident Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin.

Kate Varah

1994 Theology

Kate Varah is an arts leader, currently the Executive Director at the National Theatre, working alongside Director & Chief Executive Rufus Norris to deliver and advocate for the theatre’s huge national and international impact on stages, in cinemas, classrooms, community spaces, and online. The National Theatre is an exceptional creative hub where great theatre sparks imagination and brings people together. Brilliant plays are nurtured and staged by exceptional theatre-makers and shared with the world, reaching 15 million people globally each year through offering live and digital experiences of theatre that entertain and inspire. Kate is a Board member of the Society of London Theatre, the Sheffield Theatres Crucible Trust and a proud Ambassador of PiPA (Parents & Carers in the Performing Arts). Personal priorities are widening access to the arts, including co-founding The Michael Varah Memorial Fund, a grant-giving trust working to level the playing field for offenders.

Yasumasa Nagamine

1978 Dip Social Studies

Yasumasa Nagamine is a Japanese jurist who has been serving as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan since 2021. He started off his career by joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Japan in 1977, serving as a career officer in various bureaux in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for over 40 years, including appointments as the Japanese Ambassador to the Netherlands and to the Republic of Korea. In 2019, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United Kingdom, where he served until his appointment to the Supreme Court in 2021.