Dr Patricia Spencer has worked for the Egypt Exploration Society in London since 1981, as the Society’s Director (1984-2011) and, from January 2012, as General Editor. She also edits and produces the Society’s colour magazine Egyptian Archaeology. Dr Spencer has participated in excavations and archaeological suveys in Egypt annually for the past thirty years, working for the EES at Saqqara and at sites in the Nile Delta, and for the British Museum at el-Ashmunein in middle Egypt and, in the Delta, at Tell el-Balamun and Tell Belim. She prepared for publication (from archival sources) the previously unpublished EES excavations (1938-49) at Amara West in the Sudan. Her other publications include her doctoral thesis The Egyptian Temple: a lexicographical study, The Egypt Exploration Society: the early years, articles in scholarly journals and museum catalogues, and in more popular archaeological magazines.