James Wilsdon is Vice-Chair of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) and Professor of Research Policy at the University of Sheffield.

Since 2013, he has been Chair of the UK’s Campaign for Social Science, and he recently chaired an independent UK review of the role of metrics in the management of the research system, which published its final report 'The Metric Tide' in 2015. 

Previously, James worked as Professor of Science and Democracy at SPRU, University of Sussex; Director of Science Policy at the Royal Society; Head of Science and Innovation at the think tank Demos; and Senior Research Fellow at Lancaster University's Institute for Advanced Studies.

James is an editor of the Guardian newspaper's 'Political Science' blog, on science and research policy, and an associate editor of the open access journal Palgrave Communications. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the UK's Academy of Social Sciences. You can find him on twitter @jameswilsdon.