Our people

Dr Julia Wdowin is a Research Associate at the Bennett School of Public Policy. Julia is a scholar with research interests in normative welfare economics, applied ethics, and public policy. Her work focuses on multidimensional approaches to economic development and inequality measures, and economic measurement issues. Her research to date includes theoretical and empirical work in the areas of economic welfare and well-being measurement (with a particular interest in applications of Sen’s capability approach), inequality measurement, comprehensive wealth measurement and natural capital asset valuation. Julia holds a PhD, AdvDip and BA from the University of Cambridge.

Dr Yi Wei is Director of Studies for Economics.

My research focuses on contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition. I have also worked on moral philosophy, the philosophy of education and medieval political theory.

Paul Weithman is the Glynn Family Honors Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame, the university from which he received his B.A. in 1981. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he wrote his dissertation under John Rawls and Judith Shklar. He joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1991. Professor Weithman chaired the Philosophy Department between 2001 and 2007 and currently directs the interdisciplinary minor in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He serves on the editorial boards of the JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS, THE REVIEW OF POLITICS and POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY AND ECONOMICS. He is a member of the international advisory board of PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC ISSUES and is an honorary member of the Brazilian Society for Legal Philosophy. Professor Weithman has won several awards for his teaching. His book RELIGION AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP (Cambridge, 2002), won the annual book award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. His WHY POLITICAL LIBERALISM (Oxford, 2010) won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book on liberal democratic theory published in its year. In 2015, Cambridge University Press published a collection of his papers under the title RAWLS, POLITICAL LIBERALISM AND REASONABLE FAITH.

Academic Profile

Awards & Recognitions 

• National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship, 2000
• Annual Book Award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, 2003
• David and Elaine K. Spitz Prize for the best work of liberal and democratic theory published in 2010
• NEH Grant to host a conference, "A Theory of Justice at Fifty", 2021

Dr James Whitworth's research and clinical activity focuses on the identification of individuals at increased risk of cancer due to a heritable genetic cause, and methods to mitigate that risk where identified.

James obtained his medical degree from the University of Leicester in 2007. He continued his clinical training in the East Midlands before taking up an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Clinical Genetics in Birmingham. He moved to Cambridge to undertake a PhD, which was completed in 2019 and led to his appointment as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer prior to his current post.

Chris is a Research Associate in the Centre for Photonic Devices and Sensors specialising in liquid crystal displays and scalable manufacturing processes. He completed his PhD in electronic engineering at St. Edmund’s College.

He has developed an electrically switchable window capable of reflecting heat, controlling privacy, and displaying images while using no continuous power. To commercialise this innovation, he cofounded Flexypix in 2016 and was awarded an Enterprise Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering to pursue this venture.

His wider interests include playing the guitar, photography, and motorcycles.

Kate is Vice-Principal, Advancement at Queen’s University in Canada. She began her career in fund raising after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Queen’s in 1986. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996 and relocated to the UK to work in telecommunications and media.

From 2012-2019, she was Chief Operating Officer, Development and Alumni Relations at the University of Cambridge. She directed the £2 billion “Dear World, Yours Cambridge” campaign. She became a fellow of St Edmund’s College in 2016 and served on Council, various college committees and as a tutor.

She was CEO of RegGenome, a research spin-out from Cambridge Judge Business School, and then Director at IMAGINE where she built community to enable positive impact among global system leaders. As a freelancer in Cambridge, she worked with leaders across the University and colleges to refine strategy and align operations to maximize funding and impact. Until mid-2025, she was CEO of Cambridge’s Centre for Better Futures.

Dr Benjamin Woolf is a genetic epidemiologist who works on casual inference from observational data. His research focuses on using the inheritance of genetic variation to emulate randomised control trials, and thereby accelerate drug development.

Having failed to become a philosopher, Benji became a genetic epidemiologist. He currently works at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics and Integrative Epidemiology Units (at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol respectively). His research leverages the random inheritance of genes to emulate clinical trials ('Mendelian randomization'), and thereby accelerate drug development for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions. His PhD research won the 2023 Cambridge Public Health Early Carer Researcher award for developing a novel approach to assess the causal impact of intergenerational risk factors, such as familial second-hand smoke exposure.

In addition to being an Associate Tutor at St Edmunds, Benji is a tutor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Publications

Professor Ralf Karolus Wüstenberg studied Protestant theology in Berlin, Cambridge and Heidelberg.

Since 2009 Chair of Protestant Theology specialising in Systematic and Historical Theology at the European University of Flensburg (EUF) and Director of the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution; he is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch and a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, previously Visiting Professorships at Union Theological Seminary, New York City (2002/2003) and Freie University of Berlin (2006-2009).

In addition to his international research activities, Dr Wüstenberg performs a number of voluntary tasks. Among other things, he is a project ambassador for the House of One in Berlin and, after ordination and parish ministry (2003-2005), has been a permanent guest preacher at Berlin Cathedral since 2018. Dr Wüstenberg is the author and editor of 25 titles in English and German, including introductions to theology and Christology; on current topics such as the political dimension of reconciliation or dialogue with Islam and on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics.

Dr Eden Yin is a Fellow of St Edmund's College. His research focuses on internationalisation and branding strategies of Chinese firms. I am an associate professor at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Management.

Dr Yin received his PhD in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and currently an associate professor at the Judge Business School, and the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Management, At Cambridge, he teaches the core marketing strategy courses for both the EMBA and GEMBA programs. He also teaches branding strategies for the MBA program. His research interests include internationalization and innovation strategies of Chinese firms, building China’s global brands, branding strategies in the digital era, and new product growth in high-tech industries. His research work has appeared in journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of International Marketing, Management International Review and Sloan Management Review. Besides offering classes to degree programs, Dr Yin is an active contributor for the executive education of the Judge Business School and has taught executives from the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Finland, China, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand and a few others across a large number of executive programs. Dr Yin is a member of the American Marketing Association, INFORMS, and the Academy of Marketing Science.

Angela is a former BBC News Editor and Journalism instructor; She has also taught crisis handling at the Institute of Development in Lausanne. Angela now drafts honours nominations and makes podcasts through her business, Cambridge Podcasts. She is a graduate of Lucy Cavendish College.

Angela also volunteers for the NSPCC Schools Service and teaches English as a foreign language to refugees. She enjoys cycling, Ceroc and qi gong.

Her husband Chris is the 16th Master of St Edmund’s College

Mohamed Zaki is the Deputy Director of Cambridge Service Alliance at the Institute for Manufacturing, a research centre that brings together the world’s leading firms and academics to address digital service transformation challenges. I serve as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Service Management. I hold visiting professorships, international academic collaborators and fellowships at several global institutions, such as the University of Queensland in Australia.

I am a high-profile academic with an extensive research portfolio in “Service Management”. My research interests lie in service experience, emphasising the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to design and manage customer experience and create new data-driven business models. I have many publications in highly-ranked service management journals. Also, my papers appeared in top conferences and practical outlets such as the Harvard Business Review. I successfully generated funds from industry and UK research councils (a total contribution of over £10 million).

I have consulted and lectured for over 50 organisations, including Manchester United, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, CEMEX, Caterpillar, IKEA, HCL Tech, Bouygues, and others. I am the course leader for the Data-Driven Design for Customer Experience (CX) online course, offered through Cambridge Advance Online at Cambridge University Press and Assessment.