Wilmot G. James

Wilmot G. James Chief Executive od the Africa Genome Education Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.“

"Wilmot James is a Professor and Dean of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town. He previously served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa. He has taught at the University of the Western Cape, Indiana University and Yale University. Professor James is a member of the Board of the Ford Foundation and a non-executive director of Independent Newspapers (Cape) and David Philip Publishers (PTY) Ltd. He chaired the Task Team on International Migration for the South African government." 

"Before joining the Africa Genome Education Institute, he served as chairman of the Immigration Advisory Board (South Africa); executive director of the Social Cohesion and Integration Research Program at the Human Sciences Research Council in Cape Town, South Africa; and professor of history and sociology at the California Institute of Technology. Previously, he was dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town, and executive director of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa. Dr. James taught at the University of Cape Town and Indiana University and has been a visiting fellow at Yale University and the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.

"Dr. James is an executive director of Sanlam Limited and Sanlam Life Insurance Limited; a director of Media 24 and the Grape Company; and a trustee of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cape Times Bursary Trust."


 * Former Trustee, Ford Foundation (left in 2008)
 * International Working and Advisory Group, Comparative Human Relations Initiative