John Geiger is Chief Executive Officer of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Canadian Geographic Enterprises.
He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books, including Frozen In Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, and Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine. William S. Burroughs called him “a fellow writer of exploration literature.” His work has been translated into fourteen languages.
John has lectured widely, including at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Edinburgh Book Festival, and the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London. In 2014, he presented the Roald Amundsen Memorial Lecture, Fram Museum, Oslo. He has appeared on many television and radio programs, and has been featured in major documentary films including ‘Arctic Ghost Ship’ on PBS Nova, ‘The Angel Effect’ on National Geographic Channel’s Explorer, and ‘Flicker’ on Bravo.
John graduated in history from the University of Alberta, and is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, Toronto. He holds a Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of Calgary, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Bay Ecotarium in San Francisco, the National Advisory Council of The Walrus Foundation and is a National Champion of the Trans Canada Trail.
In 2015 John received the Polar Medal, and in 2018 he was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and Honorary Member of the James Caird Society. John was awarded with the Order of Canada in 2021.
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