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Kari Herbert
Founding Director
Kari first started travelling at the age of ten months when her father, pioneering explorer Sir Wally Herbert, took his family to live with a tribe of Inuit for over two years on a remote island off the coast of Northwest Greenland. She has had a deep connection with the Arctic ever since.
Besides running Polarworld, Kari is a writer, with work published in leading magazines and newspapers, including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, and Geographical among many others. She has had several solo photographic exhibitions.
Her first book The Explorer’s Daughter, published by Viking Penguin, was chosen as 'Book of the Week' by BBC Radio 4. Her television work includes presenting a short film on the effects of climate change on the Polar Inuit for BBC Four. She regularly appears on radio and in the press, and is a popular public speaker.
Dr Huw Lewis-Jones
Editorial Director
Huw is a historian and Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Formerly Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, and Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, London, Huw is also a consultant within media and broadcasting and an expert in maritime and polar exploration history.
Besides developing new titles for Polarworld, Huw is building a national collection of Inuit art, and curating a number of touring exhibitions. As an art critic, Huw writes for Apollo Magazine and regularly contributes to radio and the British press. Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery was screened on ABC and the History Channel. He also often features on SKY MOVIES. Huw’s documentary Wilderness Explored is currently showing on the BBC.
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