Ian Fergusson

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Ian Fergusson (Ian K. Fergusson) is BBC Weather Presenter based in Bristol and noted U.K expert on sharks, especially species inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea. He has authored a number of papers in scientific journals since 1993. Much of his academic research has focussed on biology of the great white shark in Mediterranean and north-eastern Atlantic waters.

Born in Stockton-on-Tees, England, in 1965 he works for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in Bristol, U.K. He served originally as a cameraman and was recently appointed as a weather presenter for the BBC West Region. Fergusson has appeared in various natural history television productions since the early 1990's documenting sharks, including presenting Channel 4's Equinox: Jaws in the Med in 1995. It is reported he will appear as a presenter in a new BBC series about the world's oceans, later in 2008.

He formerly worked as a weather presenter in local television in Hertfordshire, U.K.

A dedicated marine conservationist, Fergusson was a founding trustee, inaugural chairman and now serves as a patron of the Shark Trust, a wildlife charity based in Plymouth, U.K. since 1997. He is a member of the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Shark Specialist Group (since 1994).

In 2007 he won the Craft Award for camerawork from the Royal Television Society in Bristol and was nominated for the same category in 2006. Fergusson was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1995 and serves on the editorial advisory board of BBC Wildlife Magazine. He is married and has one son.