Dr James Goodwin

Dr Goodwin is Director of Science and Research Impact at the Brain Health Network (www.brain.health), London.  He was formerly Chief Scientist at Age UK, Europe’s largest charity for older people. He is a professor in the Physiology of Ageing at Loughborough University and the University of Exeter Medical School.

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Dr Goodwin speaks regularly in the UK, Europe, Canada and the USA.  He is an inspirational speaker, an expert on all aspects of ageing who specializes in communicating science to the media, the public and business professionals.

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He has spoken at companies such as Unilever, Sanofi Pasteur and Merck UK and at think tanks such as the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, where he gave a keynote address in July 2017. He regularly appears on broadcast media, including BBC News, Sky News, and local radio in both Britain and America. He has advised film and TV program makers.

Dr Goodwin has been a member of numerous expert bodies, including the United Nations Research Agenda for Ageing, the United Nations Digital Health Group and a UK Ministerial Advisory Group on Research.  He led user involvement of the European Union’s FUTURAGE project. He has given evidence on the science and social impact of ageing to Congressional hearings in Washington D.C. and Parliamentary Select Committees in Westminster.

In March 2014 Dr Goodwin was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2015, he was appointed a Board member of Optum Labs’ Alzheimer’s Disease Research Initiative in Boston, USA. In 2016, he became a founding member of the Global Council for Brain Health, a joint venture with AARP, the leading organisation for the over 50s in the United States.

Before becoming a scientist, Dr Goodwin was an officer in the British Army. He was commissioned into the Light Infantry, serving in Britain, Germany and the Middle East during the Cold War.