Jonathan Maguire is from Lichfield, UK, and is a graduate from the University of the Arts, London, with a degree in Fine Art Photography. For the last eighteen months he has worked with the British Exploring Society as a filmmaker and photographer. During his tenure he filmed a documentary of a BES expedition in Norway and Sweden in 2011 with a group of disadvantaged young people which concluded with a crossing of the North Sea on a tall ship back to London. In April 2012, in affiliation with Agapao International, Media Trust UK and Brownhills School in Rochdale, UK, he wrote and directed a documentary film based in Uganda. In July 2012 he filmed a documentary following an expedition with the British Exploring Society as they crossed the Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai expedition was the largest British group expedition, and the only multi-team crossing, of the Sinai Desert in recorded history. Jon was recently appointed as Discovery Channels first ever 'Chief Adventure Officer'.