Professor Lisa Jardine CBE (Chair)

Professor Lisa Jardine CBE is Director of the Centre   for Editing Lives and Letters and Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. She 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, and a member   of the Council of the Royal Institution, and Patron of the National Council on Archives. She was for ten years the Chair of Governors at Westminster City School in London (an inner-city boys' comprehensive), and is currently a governor and Chair of the Curriculum Committee of St Marylebone School (an inner-city girls' s comprehensive in central London). 

She is a regular writer and presenter of BBC Radio 4's A Point of View.  For the academic year 2007-8 she is seconded to the Royal Society in London as Advisor to its Collections and Archives.

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.