Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Roman Studies and Director of Research for the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. A former Director of the British School at Rome, he works on Herculaneum, Pompeii, Roman urbanism, public and private space, and Roman cultural identity. In 2013, to accompany the opening of the British Museum exhibition Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, Andrew presented the BBC documentary The Other Pompeii: Life and Death in Herculaneum. Andrew directs the Herculaneum Conservation Project and has been outspoken about the need to preserve the astonishing sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum in order to enable us to explore and learn from them for years to come.