Wilmot James
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Prof. Wilmot James MP |
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| Shadow Minister of Health | |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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| Leader | Helen Zille |
| Preceded by | Patricia Kopane |
| Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry | |
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In office 2009–2014 |
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| Preceded by | Tim Harris |
| Succeeded by | Geordin Hill-Lewis |
| Shadow Minister of Higher Education | |
| Preceded by | George Boinamo |
| Member of Parliament for Western Cape |
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Assumed office May 2009 |
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| Personal details | |
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5 July 1953 Paarl, Cape Province, Union of South Africa |
| Nationality | South African |
| Political party | Democratic Alliance |
| Spouse(s) | Delecia Forbes |
| Children | Gabriele James, Isabella James |
| Alma mater | University of the Western Cape, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yale University |
| Profession | Sociologist |
Professor Wilmot Godfrey James MP (born 5 July 1953) is a noted South African academic-turned-politician, who serves as the country's Shadow Minister of Health and as a Member of Parliament for the opposition Democratic Alliance, and served as DA Federal Chairperson 2010-2015. He then contested for the post of party leader, but lost the election to Mmusi Maimane. James has served as director of Sanlam, Media24 and the Africa Genome Education Institute, and is the 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.
Wilmot James was born in Paarl on 5 July 1953, to Peter Charles James and Shelma Rumine Hartel. He attended Athlone High School, and matriculated in 1970.
James graduated from the University of the Western Cape in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts Honours cum laude. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States, and attained his MSc from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1978, and a PhD from the same institution in 1982. In 1985 he did a post doctoral fellowship at Yale University. He was a visiting fellow at Indiana University Bloomington in 1990, and a visiting fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago in 1992.
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