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About Us

The Rustat Conferences were founded in 2009 and are an initiative of Jesus College, Cambridge. They provide an opportunity for people from the frontlines of politics, the civil service, financial services, the media, industry, business and education to discuss the vital issues of the day with leading academic experts. The Rustat Conferences provide outreach to a wider professional, academic and student audience through the publication of reports in a variety of media. The Rustat Conferences are directed by John Cornwell and chaired by Professor Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS, Master of Jesus College, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cambridge University.

In 2009-2011 the Rustat Conferences will address the following themes: The Future of Democracy; Ethics, Faiths and the Media; Infrastructure, Energy and the Environment; Pressures on Philanthropy; Food Security; Global Warming. The inaugural Rustat Conference in May 2009 discussed the Economic Crisis.

The Science and Human Dimension Project (founded 1990) and is a public understanding of science and ethics programme based at Jesus College, Cambridge. The project is directed by John Cornwell.



Director

John Cornwell
John Cornwell is an author, journalist and Fellow Commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge where he directs the Science and Human Dimension Project, a public understanding of science programme, and the Rustat Conferences. He has written for many well known publications including The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, Nature, Financial Times, Prospect, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, The Tablet, New York Times and The Observer. He is author of Hitler’s Pope,The Secret History of Pius XII, A Thief in the Night, Power to Harm, Earth to Earth, and a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He is editor of Nature’s Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific Vision; Consciousness and Human Identity; and Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science (all published by Oxford University Press), and with Michael McGhee, of Philosophers and God, Continuum (2009).


Advisory Board

Professor Robert Mair, FRS
Master, Jesus College, Cambridge

Professor Arnoud de Meyer
Director, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Professor Lord Eatwell
President of Queens’ College, and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Jonathan S. Cornwell
Publisher and Director, Media Symposia

Professor Peter Nolan
Jesus College and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Professor Geoffrey Harcourt
Jesus College, Cambridge

Dr Shailaja Fennell
Jesus College and Development Studies, University of Cambridge

Professor John Thompson
Department of Politics, University of Cambridge

Sir Samuel Brittan
Financial Times, and Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge

Tomás Carruthers
CEO Interactive Investor International

Professor Andrew Gamble
Head of Department of Politics, University of Cambridge

John Cornwell
Director Rustat Conferences, Jesus College, Cambridge

John Cornwell, Director of The Rustat Conferences
John Cornwell, Director of the Science & Human Dimension Project and of the Rustat Conferences
Professor Robert Mair
Professor Robert Mair, Master of Jesus College and Rustat Conferences Chair