<p>Bashar Nuseibeh is professor of computing at The Open University, UK, where he served as Director of Research in Computing (2002-2008), and a professor of software engineering at Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, where he served as its Chief Scientist (2009-2012). He is also a visiting professor at Imperial College London and the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. His research interests in software engineering include the relationship between requirements and design, security and privacy, and technology transfer. He holds a European Research Council Advanced Grant (2012-2017) and a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award (2013-2018), both focusing on "Adaptive Security and Privacy". His past research has been recognised through various awards including a Philip Leverhume Prize (2002), an ICSE Most Influential Paper (2003), a Senior Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005), an Automated Software Engineering Fellowship (2007), a Microsoft Research Award (2011), and a collection of "best" papers, posters, videos and software tools. Professionally he has served as Chair of the steering committee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Chair of IFIP Working Group 2.9 (on requirements engineering), and is currently Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Editor Emeritus of the Automated Software Engineering Journal.</p>