Bashar Nuseibeh is Professor of Software Engineering and Chief Scientist of Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. He is also a Professor of Computing at the Open University, UK, where he served as Director of Research (2002-2008), and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Previously he was a Reader at Imperial College London and Head of its Software Engineering Laboratory. His research interests are in software requirements engineering and design, software process modelling and technology, security and privacy, and technology transfer. He has published over 150 refereed papers and consulted widely with industry, working with organisations such as the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS), Texas Instruments, Praxis Critical Systems, Philips Research Labs, and NASA. Bashar is Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Editor Emeritus of the Automated Software Engineering Journal, and a member of the Editorial Board of several other international journals. He served as programme chair of the main conferences in his area, including ASE'98, RE'01, and ICSE'05, and was Chair of the ICSE Steering Committee (2007-2009) and of IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Requirements Engineering) (2004-2010).