Julian Hilton, BA MA D.Phil, International Consultant,
has a significant leadership record in early stage development and implementation
of new programs for established organizations, and of founding new enterprises.
He has expertise in the healthcare and wider life-science sectors, with
special interests in management systems, risk analysis and communications,
biosecurity and strategic planning. Professor Hilton consults in Europe
and the United States with clients that currently include the European
Commission, the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) (Rome), the World Health Organization, Merial, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
and the British Leather Technology Center. He was appointed in 1984 an
Expert of the European Commission in artificial intelligence and expert
systems. He has recently (2001-2002) led the successful introduction of
voluntary certification for clinical investigators for the Association
of Clinical Research Professionals. He is Principal Investigator on the
MiLo project with the Florida Institute for Phosphate Research. He has
successfully managed a number of major international projects. He lectures
and publishes widely, including seminal papers on the development of multimedia
and object-oriented systems. Before embarking on a business career in
1991, he held university chairs in UK and Austria. In 1992 he was honored
with the Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Anglo-Dutch chamber of
commerce.