University of Oxford philosopher and scientist Dr James Wilk is the originator of Minimalist Intervention, Director and Managing Partner of Interchange Research, and Co-Founder of Interchange Associates.

At Interchange Research James has led the development and commercial application of its Minimalist Intervention IP and has advised C-level executives in public and large private companies in countless industries for decades, as well as undertaking high-level assignments in the public sector and third sector.

James holds degrees from the University of Oxford spanning a range of academic fields including not only philosophy, but also neuroscience, physiology, self-organizing complex systems, psychology, sociology, and social policy and intervention, among others.

James is highly qualified in the psychiatric field and in cybernetics, and carried out advanced research for nearly a decade in the Division of Cybernetics, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology at Brunel University, London, the former Institute of Cybernetics–the world’s leading center for cybernetics at the time. He was elected a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society (UK) in 1987.

An Oxford philosophy don, for over twenty years James has been a member of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Oxford where he conducts philosophical and scientific research. For over two decades he has taught Philosophy for St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, where he is a College Lecturer, and for a number of other Oxford University colleges.