David Suzuki

David Suzuki is an award-winning geneticist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. In 1979, he became familiar to audiences around the world as host of CBC TV’s The Nature of Things, which still airs new episodes. He is widely recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology and has received numerous awards for his work, including a UNESCO prize for Science and a United Nations Environment Program medal. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada. David has 29 honorary degrees from universities in Canada, the US and Australia. For his support of Canada’s Indigenous peoples, he has been honoured with eight names and formal adoption by two First Nations.