Wilmot James

Prof. Wilmot James
Shadow Minister of Health
In office 2014 – 1 June 2017
Leader	Helen Zille
Preceded by	Patricia Kopane
Succeeded by	Patricia Kopane
Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry
In office 2012–2014
Preceded by	Tim Harris
Succeeded by	Geordin Hill-Lewis
Shadow Minister of Basic Education
In office 1 September 2010 – 1 February 2012
Preceded by	Junita Kloppers-Lourens
Succeeded by	Annette Lovemore
Member of Parliament for Western Cape
In office 6 May 2009 – 1 June 2017
Personal details
Born	(1953-07-05) 5 July 1953 (age 70) Paarl, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Spouse	Delecia Forbes
Children	Gabriele James, Isabella James
Alma mater	University of the Western Cape, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yale University, California Institute of Technology
Occupation	University Professor
Profession	Sociologist

Wilmot Godfrey James (born 5 July 1953) is a South African academic who served as the country's opposition spokesperson of health and Member of Parliament for the opposition Democratic Alliance.^[1] His constituencies were Mitchells Plain and Rondebosch. He was elected the party's Federal Chairperson between 2010 and 2015. Dr. James contested for the post of party leader in 2016, but lost the election to Mmusi Maimane. 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. He is also a former Trustee of the Ford Foundation of New York. He 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. He 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.