1. Wilmot Godfrey James was born on 5 July 1953 and is a South African academic who served as the country's opposition spokesperson of health.
22 Facts About Wilmot James
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Wilmot James was a Member of Parliament for the opposition Democratic Alliance.
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Wilmot James was elected the party's Federal Chairperson between 2010 and 2015.
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Dr James contested for the post of party leader in 2016, but lost the election to Mmusi Maimane.
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Wilmot James served as director of Sanlam, Media24 and the Africa Genome Education Institute, and was chairperson of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and the Immigration Advisory Board of South Africa.
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Wilmot James is a former Trustee of the Ford Foundation of New York.
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Wilmot James currently is Professor of Health Policy, Services and Practice and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center, School of Public Health at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
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Wilmot James previously served as a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University in New York City.
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Wilmot James was born in Paarl on 5 July 1953, to Peter Charles James and Shelma Rumine Hartel.
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Wilmot James attended Athlone High School, and matriculated in 1970.
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Wilmot James was a visiting professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1990, and a visiting fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago in 1992.
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Dr Wilmot James joined the Department of Sociology as a lecturer at the University of Cape Town in 1986 and rose to become a full Professor by 1993.
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Wilmot James succeeded Dr Alex Boraine to become the executive director of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa in 1994, and served at IDASA until 1998.
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Wilmot James was appointed an executive director at the Human Sciences Research Council in 2001, a position he held until 2004.
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In 2005 Wilmot James was appointed Director of the Africa Genome Education Institute.
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Wilmot James was a Honorary Professor of Sociology and Human Genetics.
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In 2001, Wilmot James was appointed Associate Editor at the Cape Argus newspaper, but left the paper later that year.
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Wilmot James served as a trustee of the Ford Foundation of New York between 1996 and 2008.
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In 2009 Wilmot James became a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's opposition party.
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Wilmot James was first appointed as opposition spokesperson on higher education, and later moved to the basic education portfolio.
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Wilmot James served as spokesperson of trade and industry for his party between 2012 and 2014, and as spokesperson on health till June 2017.
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In June 2017, Wilmot James left parliament for a visiting professorship in the US focusing on global fight against infectious disease epidemics as a visiting professor at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.