Sheila S. Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.. She has held academic appointments at Cornell, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, and Kyoto. At Cornell, she founded and chaired the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She has been Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Karl Deutsch Professor at the Science Center Berlin, and Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg). Her research focuses on the relationship of science and technology to law, politics and policy in modern democratic societies, with particular emphasis on the role of science in cultures of public participation and public reasoning. She has written and lectured widely on environmental regulation, risk management, and the politics of the life sciences in the United States, Europe, and India. Her books on these topics include Controlling Chemicals (co-authored, 1985), The Fifth Branch (1990), and Science at the Bar (1995). Her most recent book, Designs on Nature, a comparative study of the politics of biotechnology in Europe and the United States, was published by Princeton in 2005. Jasanoff has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.