Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University and the Open University. She is a Trustee of the V&A Museum, a member of the Council of the Royal Institution, and sits on the Library Committee of the Royal Society. In April 2008 she took up the post of Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Professor Jardine writes and reviews for all the major UK national newspapers and magazines and for *the Washington Post*, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programs for TV and radio. She is a regular writer and presenter of *A Point of View*, on BBC Radio 4: a book of the first two series of her talks was published by Preface Publishing in March 2008 and a second *Another Point of View* will appear in 2009. Lisa Jardine has published over fifty scholarly articles in refereed journals and books, and seventeen full-length books, both for an academic and for a general readership, a number of them in co-authorship with others. She is the author of a number of best-selling general books, including *Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance*, *Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution*, and biographies of Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Her most recent book on Anglo-Dutch reciprocal influence in the seventeenth century, entitled *Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory*, was published by HarperCollins in April 2008.