The James Martin 21st Century School

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The James Martin 21st Century School was founded in June 2005 at the University of Oxford, England, and is named after its benefactor, James Martin, a technology writer. The focus of the School is on stimulating Oxford’s research, by giving the University’s scholars the "resources and space to think imaginatively about the problems and the opportunities that the future will bring. (source: 21school.ox.ac.uk). The director of the institute is Dr Ian Goldin.

[edit] Affiliated Institutes

• The James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization - Director: Professor Steve Rayner

• The Environmental Change Institute - Director: Professor Diana Liverman

• The Oxford Institute of Ageing - Director: Professor Sarah Harper

• The Institute for Emergent Infections of Humans - Director: Professor Angela McLean

• The Institute for the Future of the Mind - Director: Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield

• International Migration Institute - Directors: Professors Steve Vertovec and Stephen Castles

• The e-Horizons Institute - Directors: Professors William Dutton and Paul Jeffreys

• The Oxford Future of Humanity Institute - Director: Dr Nick Bostrom

• The Programme on Ethics of the New Biosciences - Director: Professor Julian Savulescu

• The World Education Institute - Directors: Dr Thomas Benson and Dr Angus Hawkins

[edit] Advisory Council

Victor Chu, Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group

Francis Finlay, Chairman & CEO, Clay Finlay Inc

Orit Gadiesh, Chair, Bain & Co

John Gage, Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems

John Hood, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford, and Chair of the International Advisory Council for the 21st Century School

Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-large, Singapore

Amory Lovins, Co-founder, Chairman & Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

James Martin, Founder, 21st Century School

Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director-General, IUCN

Joseph Nye, Professor & former Dean, Kennedy School of Government

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Vice President, World Bank, and former Finance Minister of Nigeria

Martin Rees, Lord, President of the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal

Amartya Sen, Professor, Harvard University

Mark Shuttleworth, IT Developer and former Astronaut

Nicholas Stern, Sir, Professor, London School of Economics

Joseph Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia University

Crispin Tickell, Sir, Director, Policy Foresight Programme

Craig Venter, President, J Craig Venter Institute

Xu Zhihong, President, Peking University

Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico

Ex-Officio:

Ian Goldin, Director, 21st Century School

Michael Spence, Chair, Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, and Chair of the Management Committee for the 21st Century School

[edit] External links

• James Martin 21st Century School Website
• Webcast of Sir Nicholas Stern Inaugural Lecture on Climate Change
• Webcast of J Craig Venter on 'Genomics: From humans to the environment'
• School Blog