Professor White is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Van Eck Professor of Engineering, and the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge. He is also Head of Photonics Research in the Electrical Division in Engineering, and Chair of the Rustat Conferences. Ian White began his time at Cambridge by being awarded the BA in 1980, and the PhD in 1984. After being appointed a Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer at Cambridge he then moved to the University of Bath to become Professor of Physics in 1990. In 1996, Professor White moved to the University of Bristol, becoming Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1998. He returned to Cambridge in October 2001 as Van Eck Professor of Engineering. Professor White's current research interests are in the area of high speed communication systems, optical datacommunications, laser diodes for communications and engineering applications and RF over fibre systems.

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).



Rustat Conferences Research, Operations and Reports

Jonathan S.Cornwell - Executive Director
Jonathan Cornwell is a publisher with a background in academic and professional publishing. He is director of conference producer Media Symposia. He worked in Europe and the Middle East for the Thomson Corporation and ran the international division of elearning business ThirdForce, working with UNESCO and governments in the Middle East, Africa, China, and the Americas. He was also Chief Operating Officer of YUDU Media, the digital publishing pioneer. He is a Director of the Cyber Security Forum which runs events in London and Cambridge. He studied at UCL, Cambridge University and Imperial College London.

Nathan Brooker - Operations and Research
Nathan Brooker researches Rustat Conference themes, speakers and participants. As a journalist, he contributes regularly to the Financial Times and is the Rustat Conference rapporteur, writing and editing conference reports. He is a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Senior Adviser, Macquairie Infrastructure and Real Assets, former Minister for Transport and for the Cabinet Office

Master, Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, and former President of the Royal Society

Chairman of The Windsor Leadership Trust and Chairman, VisitBritain

Foundation Governor, Northampton University

Professor English and French Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge and Fellow, Jesus College

Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group

Professor of International Business, Cambridge Judge Business School, and Fellow, Jesus College