University of York offers honorary degrees every year to leading figures from worlds of history, sport, media, and health. These are the people with outstanding achievements in their subjective fields. The list of this year's honorary graduates are
Professor Timothy Garton Ash who is an author and historian
Rory Cellan-Jones who is an Technology journalist and author
Sanjay Bhandari who is the Chairperson of Kick it Out
Professor Diane Coyle CBE who is an economist
Professor Stephen Leveson who is a surgeon
Kate Raworth who is an ecological economist
Lisa Unger Baskin who is a historian and collector
Josh Berger CBE who is the chairperson of BRIT School