Jonathan S. Cornwell

Executive Director

Johnny has a background in academic publishing, conferences and the arts in Europe, Middle East and China

He directs the Science & Human Dimension Project at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where is a college Associate. He also works with the Caravane Earth Foundation and was co-organiser of the Majlis exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2021, curating an interdisciplinary symposium on the theme: How we will live together? 

He was formerly director of the Rustat Conferences, producing high-level forums on a range of vital issues including Cybersecurity, Geopolitics of Energy, Food Security, Big Data, Cryptocurrencies, and the Financial Crisis, for leaders from government, industry and research,  at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, where he was a Senior Research Associate. He has worked on digital education and information projects across the Middle East in partnership with UNESCO and the Arab League, as well as in China and Latin America. He was co-organiser of the Houghton Revisited exhibition which won Apollo Exhibition of the Year award 2013. In 2024-25 he is co-organiser of  the exhibition A Cabinet of Wonders at Palazzo Grimani, Venice. He began his career with Thomson Corp. in Paris and Madrid. He is a graduate of University College London (French and Spanish), Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (Economics), and has an MBA from Imperial College London.