The UK organisation for the business of Open Technology

Jimmy Wales is an American-British internet entrepreneur best known for founding Wikipedia.org, one of the world’s most visited websites, and the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. He also co-founded Fandom, a leading platform for fan- and community-led wikis. Wales is the author of The Seven Rules of Trust, published by Bloomsbury (UK) and Crown Currency (US). Named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people, he has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and received the UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal for his contributions to global knowledge-sharing and open access.