RGS Explore Weekend speakers and facilitators
Meet the world-leading experts who generously share insights and advice from their deep involvement in geographical exploration.
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Christopher Lawton
Chris is the co-founder of Silk Road Training and MiRisk Media, providing safety and security training and consultancy globally.
Christopher Walker
Christopher is the owner of Overland Training Canada, a leading provider of high-quality off-road driver and operator training.
Duncan Milligan
Duncan runs Tour de Force, a company specialising in road trips worldwide. He has worked in the Adventure Travel Industry for over 20 years leading various, long distance, overland journeys throughout Africa, Asia and South America.
Graham Jackson
Graham has run and guided expeditions in Africa, Australia, South America, the American West, Mexico and Central America, and trained in the US, Central America and Africa. He is recognized as one of the premier Overland trainers in the world, started Overland Training and is co-owner of 7P Overland.
Jason Wragg
Jason is the Course Leader for the BA(Hons) in Outdoor Adventure Leadership at UCLAN and PhD student exploring the lived experience of adventurous travel by motorcycle.
Jonathan Hanson
Jonathan is an author, expedition leader, and overland equipment and vehicle expert.
Jonathan Williamson
An NHS anaesthetist, Jon also teaches as faculty on multiple expedition medicine focused courses with Endeavour Medical.
Jude Kriwald
Jude Kriwald is an explorer, filmmaker, adventure mentor and winner of British Exploring Society’s Leader of the Year Award. Jude’s debut film, Alone Across Gola, takes the audience deep inside the Liberian rainforest as he attempts to retrace a lost track never before undertaken by bicycle.
Martin Gregory
Martin is Lead Instructor for Jaguar Land Rover Experience, with 20 years experience in driver training in Land Rover products.
Will Mather
Will has been involved in youth-development expeditions since 2006 and currently works for a large British NGO. He has travelled the world on foot and by 4x4. While supporting expeditions with Land Rovers, he fell in love with the vehicles and now runs he runs a website that helps people to fix them.
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