Media Symposia draws on the expertise of a wide range of professionals in academia, publishing and the media including:
Jonathan Cornwell - Partner and Director - is a publisher and conference producer with a background in academic and educational publishing and digital media. He worked in Europe and the Middle East for Routledge, Chapman & Hall, O'Reilly Media, and the Thomson Corporation. He ran the international division of elearning business ThirdForce, working in partnership with UNESCO and governments in the Middle East, Africa, China, the Americas and UK. He was Chief Operating Officer of YUDU Media, a pioneer in digital magazines and ebooks. He is Executive Director of the Jesus College, Cambridge Rustat Conferences running high level events on topics such as the Economic Crisis, the Future of Democracy, Infrastructure for Energy, Water & Cities, and Manufacturing in the UK. He is Director of the Cyber Security Forum whose first London conference took place in September 2011 at the Department for Business Innovation & Skills. He studied at UCL, Cambridge University and Imperial College London.
Dr Tudor Jenkins is a digital media expert, photographer, and programmer. Through his consultancy Wide Eyed Vision he has experience developing digital media projects including multimedia applications and websites for a range of organisations in the public and private sectors including The National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces and the Rustat Conferences, Cambridge University. He has a Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex.
John Cornwell - Partner - is an author, journalist and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he directs the Science & Human Dimension Project, a public understanding of science programme, and the Rustat Conferences. He writes for many publications including The Sunday Times, Financial Times, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Nature, The Observer, Prospect, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS and The Tablet. He is author of many books including Hitler's Pope, A Thief in the Night, A Power to Harm, Earth to Earth, and Darwin's Angel. He is also editor of Nature's Imagination, Consciousness and Human Identity, and Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science - all published by OUP. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.