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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.

I research into interfaith relations, primarily between Jews, Christians and Muslims. Much of my academic work explores the significance of sharing sacred texts and narratives. I also work with local actors in the Middle East to agree measures to safeguard Jerusalem's holy places.

Dr Edward Kessler, MBE is Founder President of the Woolf Institute and a leading thinker in interfaith relations, primarily, Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations.
He was described by The Times Higher Education Supplement as 'probably the most prolific interfaith figure in British academia' and was awarded an MBE for services to interfaith relations. He has written or edited 13 books, including An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, 2010), Jews, Christians and Muslims in Encounter (SCM, 2013) and Jesus (The History Press, 2016). His Documentary History of Jewish-Christian Relations was published by Cambridge in 2024. In 2024 he was awarded the Seelisberg Prize for his contribution to fostering Jewish-Christian relations. He was Vice-Chair of the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life (2013-15), Principal Investigator of the Woolf Diversity Study, a study of diversity in England and Wales (2017-19), and Chair of the Commission on the Integration of Refugees (2022-25). In 2023 he was appointed Chair of the Advisory Board overseeing the unification of Reform and Liberal Judaism. Kessler regularly appears in the media commenting on religion and belief issues of the day, such as the impact of October 7th 2023 attacks on Israel and the Gaza War on the Leading Podcast, and hosted the weekly podcast Naked Reflections (2020-23).

He also presented the series, Covid-19 Chronicles (2020), on the impact of the coronavirus on religion and belief. He wrote and presented two A-Z podcasts (2018-20), An A-Z of Believing: From Atheism to Zealotry and An A-Z of the Holy Land: From Arab to Zion. Much of his academic work has been examining Scripture and exploring the significance of sharing a sacred text. In recent writings, he has focused on the encounter with Islam and contemporary relations between the three Abrahamic faiths. Kessler proposes positive approaches for managing difference, which he argues, is vital in forming a constructive identity as well as for sustaining communities, in the UK and Overseas. Since 2015, he has been working with local actors in Israel, Palestine and Jordan to agree measures to safeguard Jerusalem's holy places.Kessler also explores the tensions, positive as well as negative, between religion and civil society.

At a lecture at the Brookings Institution in 2014, he argued that diplomats and policymakers need to be better trained in religion and belief, describing the contemporary religious landscape as a 'post-interfaith' world. In 2019, at an annual lecture for the Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities in Oslo, he argued that because religious monopolies are in decline, belonging to a minority is the norm. In his 2024 address upon receiving the Seelisberg Prize, he called for a redoubling of efforts to pursue genuine dialogue at a time of increasing polarisation.

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My research focuses on the genetic causes of susceptibility to infections and the adult presentations of immune deficiency as well as the determinants of vaccine responses.

Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas is a Consultant in infectious Diseases with an interest in primary and secondary immunodeficiencies and transplantation. She leads the Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) and other rare unexplained intracellular infections collaborative network. Effrossyni is also a Visiting Professor of University of Athens and University of Crete Medical Schools, Greece.

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Awards & Recognitions

• RCP London NIHR Consultant Research Award (shared with Prof A Comninos)/ RCP & NIHR, 2024
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK, 2023
• The Winston Churchill Memorial Foundation Award, 2019
• Excellent Teaching Award, University of Cambridge Clinical School Students Society, 2016 & 2018

Dr. Elif Çetin is an Associate Professor of International Relations and a Faculty member at the Department of International Relations, Yaşar University (Izmir, Turkey). Additionally, she is a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. Since September 2023, she has been the Head of the UNESCO Chair on International Migration at Yaşar University, which is the first and only UNESCO Chair in Turkey that specifically focuses on migration.

Dr. Çetin holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. She was a visiting scholar at the EUI (Florence) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) (Oxford). Her research interests include politicisation of immigration, political discourse formation, and development of immigration control policies in Europe and beyond. Her publications focus on different dimensions of migration management and control policies.

Consultant Anaesthetist, West Suffolk Hospital and Clinical Tutor, Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine

I lecture and publish in the areas of Christian moral and political theologies, interfaith relations, and conflict transformation. I have oversight of the Woolf Institute's teaching in the Cambridge Theological Federation as well as the Institute's public engagement programmes.

Dr Phillips has been at the Woolf Institute since 2022. Previously she was Lecturer in Christian Ethics and Director of Studies at Westcott House, as well as Research Fellow with the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology. She was a Visiting Scholar with the Institute for Criminology 2018-2019 and from 2016-2019 she co-convened and ethnographically researched a course on 'The Good Life and the Good Society' inside a high security prison. At Margaret Beaufort she completed Flourishing Inside, a project researching the intersections of Catholic social thought and prison chaplaincy. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Publications

• Elizabeth Phillips, Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics (Cascade, 2022).
• Elizabeth Phillips, Anna Rowlands and Amy Daughton (eds), T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology ( T&T Clark, 2021).
• Craig Hovey and Elizabeth Phillips (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Political Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Elizabeth Phillips, Political Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2012).
• Elizabeth Phillips and Ferdia Stone-Davis (eds), Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry (2024).

Emanuela is Director of Studies for Modern and Medieval Languages

Dr Emily Bassett is currently a Research Associate at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, working on how researchers might better communicate and understand causal language.

Emily completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Warwick in 2024 whilst working at the Unit. Her thesis focused on how we might understand shame as a moral emotion, attempting to reconcile our intuitions around shame’s moral importance with its reputation as a heteronomous, shallow, and narcissistic emotion. Prior to her PhD, Emily completed an MPhil in Philosophy which argued in defence of different kinds of epistemic responsibility for testimony.

Emma obtained her PhD from Cambridge University, Department of Pathology, where she studied the protein-protein interactions of Influenza A virus polymerase. After a period of time at St George’s Hospital Medical School studying immune evasion mechanism of paramyxoviruses, she returned to Cambridge University. Emma then worked in the Department of Medicine at Cambridge University where she worked on Human Cytomegalovirus. In the Department of Medicine she worked as a Senior Research Associate researching the molecular mechanisms of Human Cytomegalovirus latency. In 2023 she was appointed an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, Department of Pathology, where she continues to study Human Cytomegalovirus latency with a view to the development of novel therapeutics.

My research includes Veterinary Pathology, Oncology, hepatitis and pancreatitis in dogs and cats, infectious diseases in animals, and syringomyelia in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. I have supervised 15 undergraduate theses, 8 master theses, and 5 doctorate theses.

Fernando Constantino-Casas graduated with a Bachelor degree in Veterinary Medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1985. He was awarded a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1991. Fernando was head of the Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMVZ) in Mexico City from 2001 to 2006. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK in 2007 and as University Pathologist in the same institution in March 2014. Fernando is a member of the Mexican Society of Veterinary Pathologists and the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (small species) – Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS). Fernando is a Fellow Class A and tutor at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Publications

• Rad R, Strong A, Varela I, Kriegl L, Fraga MF, Calvanese V, Saur D, Price S, McDermott U, Eser S, Constantin-Casas F, Kirchner T, Yusa K, Grove C, Seidler B, Schmid RM. A genetic progression model of BrafV600E-induced intestinal tumourigenesis reveals targets for therapeutic intervention. Cancer Cell. 2013; 24, 1-15, July 8.
• Rad R, Rad L, Wang W, Strong A, Ponstingl H, Bronner IF, Mayho M, Steiger K, Weber J, Hieber M, Veltkamp C, Eser S, Geumann U, Ollinger R, Zukowska M, Barenboim M, Maresch R, Caldinanos J, Friedrich M, Varela I, Constantino-Casas F, Sarver A, Hoeve JT, Prosser H, et al. A conditional PiggyBac transposition system for genetic screening in mice identifies oncogenic networks in pancreatic cancer. Nature Genetics. 2015; 47:1; 47-56.
• Prevalence of pancreatic, hepatic and renal microscopic lesions in post-mortem samples from cavalier King Charles spaniels. J Small Anim Pract. 2016;57(4):188-193.
• Coddou MF, Constantino-Casas F, Scase T, Day MJ, Blacklaws, Watson PJ. Chronic inflammatory disease in the pancreas, kidney and salivary glands of English cocker spaniels and dogs of other breeds shows similar histological features to human IgG4-related disease. J Comp Pathol. 2020; 177:18-33.
• Nivy, Constantino-Casas et al. Copper-associated hepatitis in CKCS. Veterinary Record. 2023:e3651.

Awards & Recognitions

• Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (Small Domestic Animal), Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).
• Associate Fellow (Associate Fellowship Higher Education Academy - AFHEA).

Dr Fiona Costello is a Bye-Fellow at St Edmund's College.

She is interested in the global movement of persons, Brexit and the legacy of EU free movement to the UK, wider UK Immigration law and policy and access to justice pathways available to vulnerable and minoritised communities living in the UK and EU.

Dr Costello works on various research matters at the Faculty of Law, Cambridge examining immigration issues in the UK post Brexit (particularly for EU citizens in the UK) and access to justice pathways for marginalised communities. Her work is part of a programme called ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ (http://ukandeu.ac.uk), which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Alongside her academic work, Fiona also works with a charity in Norfolk called GYROS (www.gyros.org.uk) supporting refugee, asylum seekers and other migrant communities. Fiona has written extensively on the topic of migration to the UK. Her work has been featured in The Independent, The Times, The Conversation and BBC News among others. She has given evidence to both the House of Lords, EU Affairs Committee, and the Equality and Social Justice Committee in the Senedd, as well as to Parliamentary Staff in the House of Commons and to the APPG on citizen’s rights. Her work has been cited in reports by both the UK House of Lords and the Welsh Parliament.  She also blogs on Brexit matters, mainly for the http://ukandeu.ac.uk/. Her 2024 co-authored monograph ‘Low-Paid EU Migrant workers, The House, The Street, The Town’ was shortlisted for the SLSA Hart Book Prize 2025.

Fiona’s full list of academic publications can be found here: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/f-costello/78811

I am a human development economist, working on topics relating to poverty, inequality, aporophobia, education and indicators of human development. I have been working on the operationalisation of the capability approach and on the development of new methods of partial rankings for evaluating well-being and sustainability. I carry out a long-term (unpublished) research on moral sentiments, focusing on the links between love and human development. I am currently Professor of Business Ethics and Economics, and Dean of the IQS School of Management/Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. I have been a senior economist for the United Nations Development Programme in Brazil. I have also worked as a consultant for several UN agencies such as UNEP, ILO, UNESCO, FAO, among others. Prior to that I was a GB fellow, CTO and Director of Studies of Economics & Land Economy for St Edmund’s College for several years. I have been associated with the Von Hügel Institute since my PhD years at St Edmund’s, back in 1994. I have also lectured for Land Economy on ‘human development and ecosystem services’ for 18 years.

Flavio Comim is the Dean of the IQS School of Management, University Ramon Llull in Barcelona. He is a Professor in Business Ethics and Economics. He was senior economist for UNDP Brazil during 2008/2010 when he coordinated Brazil’s Human Development Report on ‘Human Values’. After that he coordinated Panama’s 2014 Human Development Report on ‘Childhood and the Youth’. He has also been a consultant for many international organisations such as UNEP, UNESCO, FAO, WHO, UNDP and ILO, carrying out fieldwork in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. He has also been a consultant for CSR projects of big corporations such as Natura & Co, Philips, Siemens, Petrobras, Vale, TIM, among others. He lectured for Land Economy for 18 years. In Cambridge, he is also a research associate of the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund’s College. He has been a Coordinating Leading Author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and has contributed to the Global Environmental Outlook 4. He has published widely in areas such as history of economic thought, economic methodology, development ethics, ecological economics and the capability approach. Among his publications, it could be mentioned the co-edited books Children and the Capability Approach (2011) with Mario Biggeri and Jerome Ballet, Capabilities, Gender, Equality with Martha Nussbaum (2014) and New Frontiers of the Capability Approach (2018) with Shailaja Fennell and PB Anand. He has published in journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Ecological Indicators, China Economic Review, Social Indicators Research, Review of Social Economy, Journal of International Development, Journal of Economic Methodology, History of Political Economy and Structural Change, and Economic Dynamics and Development among others.

Gianmarco Contino is an Associate Professor of Cancer Genomic Medicine and Group Leader in the Department of Cancer and Genetic Sciences at the University of Birmingham Medical School. He also serves as an Upper GI Consultant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, part of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, and as the Translational Lead for Precision Health Technologies at the University of Birmingham. Additionally, he is the Director of the MSc in Clinical Oncology at the University of Birmingham and the Network Chair of the EORTC Pathobiology Group. Gianmarco is a Research Fellow at the Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge, where he explores topics in the epistemology of medicine and the implications of artificial intelligence.

Previously, Gianmarco was a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His training in surgical oncology and translational science included positions at the European Institute of Oncology (Milan), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Imperial College London. He consulted for AI-driven biotech companies, including Cambridge Cancer Genomics (now part of Nvidia) and EpistemicAI.

Gianmarco's research focuses on functional genomics of aneuploidy and upper gastrointestinal cancers. As part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, he worked on identifying structural variations driving oesophageal adenocarcinoma. His current research leverages functional genomics approaches to understand the molecular mechanisms behind chromosomal instability in oesophageal adenocarcinoma, with active studies involving Genomics England and UK Biobank.

Clinically, Gianmarco specializes in advanced endoscopy and endoscopic treatment for upper gastrointestinal cancers. He has published extensively on the genomics and molecular therapeutics of pancreatic and oesophageal adenocarcinoma, with contributions appearing in leading journals such as Science and Nature.

Gianmarco is passionate about training the next generation of clinician-scientists and volunteers with organisations that support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter STEM fields.

I am Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge Judge Business School. My research examines the role of financial and non-financial firms in sustainable economic development, monetary policy transmission, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Dr Giorgio Caselli is Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research (CBR), Cambridge Judge Business School, and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow and Supervisor on the MSt in Sustainability Leadership at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Giorgio’s research examines the role of financial and non-financial firms in sustainable economic development, monetary policy transmission, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He has been working on several projects, funded among others by Cambridge Ahead, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, the Business Board, the Babraham Research Campus and the Greater Cambridge Partnership. Prior to joining the CBR, Giorgio worked at Deloitte Italy’s Global Financial Services Industry and completed his PhD in Financial Economics at Cranfield University. His PhD thesis was awarded the Director’s Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis of the Year. Giorgio regularly presents his research at leading international conferences and his work received several awards, including a Young Researcher Award by the European Association of Cooperative Banks. His research has been published in several academic and practitioner journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Financial Review and SUERF Policy Notes.

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Publications

• Caselli G. & Migliorelli M. (2024), [Title], SUERF Policy Note, https://tinyurl.com/3x37vmem
• Caselli G. & Figueira C. (2023), [Title], The Financial Review, DOI: 10.1111/fire.12329
• Caselli G. (2022), [Title], in Migliorelli M. and Lamarque E., [Title], ISBN: 978-3-030-98193-8
• Caselli G., Cosh A. & Tyler P. (2021), “The Cambridge Phenomenon; [Subtitle]”, Innovation & Impact
• Caselli G. et al. (2020), [Title], Cambridge Journal of Economics, DOI: 10.1093/cje/beaa011

Awards & Recognitions

• European Association of Cooperative Banks (EACB) Award for Young Researchers on Cooperative Banks
• Director’s Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis of the Year, School of Management, Cranfield University

Dr Bevins' research focuses on the development of novel machine learning enhanced data analysis tools for studies of the early universe.

He is a member of the Cambridge based Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen collaboration which operates a radio telescope in the Karoo Radio Observatory in South Africa aiming to detect light from the first stars and galaxies. He is also a member of the CosmoCube initiative which aims to send a radio telescope into orbit around the moon in the coming years.

Dr Harry Bevins is a Kavli Research Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge and Cavendish Astrophysics. He works at the intersection between theory, data analysis and instrumentation developing machine learning enhanced analysis pipelines to help researchers learn about the early universe.

Dr Bevins received his PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2023. His thesis is titled “A Machine Learning-enhanced Toolbox for Bayesian 21-cm Data Analysis and Constraints on the Astrophysics of the Early Universe”.

Dr Harry Wardell is a Consultant in Emergency and Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Fellow with PaNDR (Paediatric critical care transport service, Cambridge University Hospitals). He joined the CGCM as Clinical Tutor at St Edmunds in June 2025.

His particular interests in medical education include social learning and how to adapt teaching strategies to high pressured and time poor environments such as the resuscitation room.

He holds a PGDipMedEd and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

In his long and successful career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin our ARM), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Limited.