Professor White is 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.

Jonathan S. Cornwell
Jonathan Cornwell is a publisher, conference producer and co-Director of the Rustat Conferences. He has worked in Europe, Middle East, Far East and the Americas for a number of book publishers, e-learning companies and internet businesses including Routledge, Chapman & Hall, the Thomson Corporation, ThirdForce plc and YUDU Media. He has managed large scale government information and education programmes with UNESCO and the Arab League. He has a specific interest in cyber security. As Director of the consultancy Media Symposia, he is also co-organiser of art exhibitions including 2013 Exhibition of the Year 'Houghton Revisited' and the 2015 James Turrell UK exhibition 'LightScape'. He studied at University College London, Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Imperial College, London.

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).

Rustat Conferences Research, Operations and Reports

Nathan Brooker
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.

Chair, The British Council, and Chair, Openwork and the Port of London Authority. Former CEO and President, Visa International

Director of Development and Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge

Foundation Governor, Northampton University

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

Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College

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

Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of Cambridge and Fellow, Jesus College

former Executive Chairman and CEO, PA Consulting Group

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

Director, Media Symposia

Professor of Education (1938), Director of Research, University of Cambridge. Fellow, Jesus College