James M. Smith

Dr. James M Smith "is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the Aegis Trust, a UK-based genocide prevention organization. Aegis, which was launched in 2000, is based at the UK Holocaust Centre, which James established with his brother Stephen in 1995. Aegis created the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda and launched the 'Protect Darfur' campaign in 1995. During the crisis in Kosovo in 1999, Dr. Smith jointly initiated the East Midlands Kosovo Appeal and worked with the International Medical Corps in Albania and Kosovo as a volunteer physician. He graduated from the University of Leeds School of Medicine in 1993 and most recently held a part time position as a Staff Grade Doctor in Emergency Medicine at the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham. He is the editor of Will Genocide Ever End? (Paragon, 2002) with Professors Carol Rittner and John K. Roth."


 * Endorser, Genocide Intervention Network