![]() She was part of the BBC team which this year won a Royal Television Award (RTS) for International News Coverage for reporting from Ukraine. Her journalism has been recognised by multiple awards, including the Hay Festival Medal for Journalism (2022), and the London Press Club’s Broadcast Journalist of the Year (2021). Doucet spent 15 years as a BBC foreign correspondent with postings in Jerusalem, Amman, Tehran, Islamabad, Kabul and Abidjan. Regularly deployed to anchor special news coverage from the field, in the past year she has spent much of her time in Ukraine reporting on the Russian invasion and in Afghanistan covering events since the return of the Taliban. Lyse Doucet, CM, OBE, is the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent. Left to right: Professor Frances Arnold Michelle Bachelet Lyse Doucet Professor Stephen Furber. In 2011, she was named the first Executive Director of the newly established United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Bachelet also held ministerial portfolios in the Chilean Government as Minister of Health (2000-–2) and Minister of Defence (2002–4). ![]() ![]() Under her leadership, marine protected areas were created, leading to a tenfold increase in marine conservation, and renewable energy production was increased. As president, Bachelet cites among her notable achievements saving billions of dollars in revenues to spend on pension reform, which guaranteed a programme of social protections for women and children. Bachelet was President of Chile 2006––18. ![]() Michelle Bachelet was born in Santiago, Chile, and most recently served as the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights (2018–22). Former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet She is also an International Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK. Professor Arnold has been elected to the US National Academies of Science, Medicine and Engineering. In 2018, Professor Arnold received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering directed evolution methods used to make enzymes for applications in sustainable chemistry across medicine, consumer products, agriculture, fuels and chemicals. Professor Arnold was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and received her BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Frances Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Prize laureate. We are sorry that tickets to the ceremony are not available to members of the public. Ticket registration is now open for staff, Congregation, students, Oxford University alumni, retired members of Congregation and academic visitors. At the Encaenia ceremony, degrees will be awarded to Professor Frances Arnold, Michelle Bachelet, Lyse Doucet, Professor Stephen Furber, Professor Paul Gilroy, Val McDermid, Professor Malik Peiris and Professor Sir Simon Schama.
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