Ralph St Clair Wade is an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and the founder of CambridgeCultura Ltd. His practice as a strategy consultant builds on time spent working bilingually at the World Heritage Centre (UNESCO), Paris. His work at UNESCO, funded by Cambridge University, focussed on the cultural and environmental challenges facing the city of Venice. As the founding partner of CambridgeCultura he has developed proposals for the Department of Science (DSIT), the National Gallery, WeTransfer, and Borkowski Ltd. Ralph holds a PhD from St John’s College, Cambridge, where he was both a Foundation and Graduate Scholar. He was concurrently an award holder at the Paul Mellon Centre, an adjunct of Yale University. His doctoral thesis, defended in 2022, was described by one examiner as ‘an outstanding piece of work and a genuine contribution to knowledge…a tour de force’.  Ralph holds an MPhil degree (2018), with Distinction, from Cambridge University. For this degree, he received the highest mark in the University, and was awarded a College Prize. Ralph also holds a BA degree, in History, with ‘double’ first-class honours. He is a past winner of the Harvard Book Prize (2013). Ralph remains active as a historian, lecturing at both an undergraduate and postgraduate level at Cambridge. He regularly undertakes public lectures, most recently at the National Gallery, the Wallace Collection, the RIBA and the V&A. He has given papers at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Columbia University, New York; and for the Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh. His work is published by Cambridge and Yale University presses; by BloombergConnects; and in Private Eye magazine.​