Encaenia 2012 - Live

The orations by the Public Orator will be made in Latin, as will the admissions by the Chancellor. The Latin texts, with English translations, are provided in the links below:

Honorary Doctors of Civil Law

1. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairman of the Burmese National League for Democracy and member of the Burmese parliament.
2. Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, former Director General of the Security Service.

Honorary Doctors of Letters

3. Mr David Cornwell, (aka John le Carré), author.
4. Professor Drew Faust, President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University.
5. Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman of Sony Corporation.
6. Professor Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, McGill University.

Honorary Doctors of Science

7. Dr Henry Barnett, former President and Scientific Director of the Robarts Research Institute.
8. Professor William Phillips, physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute.

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