Speaker Bio: JAMES WILSDON is a metascientist who works on the governance and management of science and research, and the role of evidence in decision-making. He is Professor of Research Policy at University College London (UCL) and Executive Director of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), which he co-founded in 2019 with a mission to accelerate transformative research on research systems, cultures and decision-making. RoRI's consortium now includes 52 partners from 31 countries, who between them invest over US$40 billion a year in R&D. Since the late-1990s, as a researcher, writer, policy adviser and campaigner, James has worked at the heart of research policy in the UK and internationally, and contributed to debates over public engagement, science diplomacy, responsible metrics, responsible research assessment, international collaboration and metascience. In addition to posts at the universities of Sheffield, Sussex and Lancaster, and now UCL, he has worked in think tanks, NGOs and as director of science policy for the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. In 2025, James led the organisation of Metascience 2025, the largest meeting to date of the metascience community – with 800 delegates from 65 countries. He is on Bluesky at @jameswilsdon.bsky.social and LinkedIn.