Jeremy Wade

Jeremy John Wade (Born 23 March 1956) is a British biologist, professor, science popularizer, television presenter and author of popular science, biology and travel. He is known for the television series River Monsters and The Jungle Books.

Jeremy John Wade was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom, on 23 March 1956 and was educated in Nayland, where his father was a vicar. He attended Dean Close School and holds a degree in Zoology from the University of Bristol and a Postgraduate Teaching Certificate in Biological Sciences from the University of Kent.^[2]

He has worked as a secondary school biology teacher in Kent. He lived in Brazil for several years, where he became fluent in Portuguese. He also speaks Spanish and French. He has worked and lived primarily in Bristol and Kent, and now, when not traveling for work, lives in rural Somerset. His global travels have not been limited to fishing. He has had a variety of jobs in remote destinations and many setbacks due to the political instability and poor personal safety in some of these places.

He has contracted malaria several times and came very close to dying from the disease in a village in the Congo, next to the river of the same name. He was also threatened at gunpoint and survived a plane crash.^[3] Wade has been arrested on several occasions on suspicion of espionage.