Carin Bondar
Canada
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Former ballerina and Biologist with a twist, Canadian Dr Carin Bondar is the new face of Discovery Science Channel and Animal Planet USA. An online and TV producer, her independent web series Wild Sex has been watched by over 45 million viewers and the TED Global talk she gave in Edinburgh in 2013 reached an audience of nearly 2 million.
Dr Carin Bondar has a PhD in population ecology from the University of British Columbia and has hosted a variety of online and TV programmes working with Animal Planet, Scientific American, National Geographic, the Science Channel and Discovery Channel. She was lead presenter on Discovery Worldβs Brave New World with Stephen Hawking in autumn 2014, and is lead presenter on Animal Planetβs Worlds Oddest Animal Couples (summer 2015).
Her Second book, Wild Sex (based on the web series and TED talk) will be available world-wide on September 10, 2015.