HFEA Chair - Professor Lisa Jardine
Biography
Professor Lisa Jardine CBE is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary research in the Humanities, and of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at University College London.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. She is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple.
She holds honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews, Sheffield Hallam, Aberdeen and the Open University.
She has been a Trustee of the V&A Museum, a Patron of the Archives & Records Association and the Orange Prize. She was for ten years the Chair of Governors at Westminster City School in London (an inner-city boys' comprehensive), and until recently a governor and Chair of the Curriculum Committee of St Marylebone School (an inner-city girls' comprehensive in central London).
In December 2011 she was appointed a Non-Executive Director of The National Archives. In November 2011 she was appointed an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. In 2013-14 she will serve as President of the British Science Association.
She is a regular writer and presenter of BBC Radio 4's A Point of View. For the academic year 2007-8 she was seconded to the Royal Society in London as Advisor to its Collections and Archives. She was the 2010 Scaliger Visiting Professor at the University of Leiden.
Professor Jardine has written 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 latest book, on Anglo-Dutch reciprocal influence in the seventeenth century, is entitled Going Dutch.
Lisa was appointed as Chair of the HFEA in spring of 2008.
Appointment until: 16 January 2014
Members interests
Direct employment and consultancies: Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters; Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of CHIRP at University of London
Fee-paid work other than HFEA: Royalties from academic publications; Journalism and Media
Shareholdings: None
Other public appointments and committee memberships: Trustee of the V&A Museum, Patron of the Archives and Records Association and a Non-Executive Director of The National Archives
Other: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge; Honorary doctorates at Sheffield Hallam, St Andrews, Aberdeen and the Open University; Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple; Labour Party member
Registration of hospitality: None
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Page last updated: 12 July 2013
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