Michael C. A. Macdonald FBA[1] is a research associate of the Khalili Research Centre,[2] honorary fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford,[3] and fellow of the British Academy. He is a Trustee of the International Association for the Study of Arabia.[4] He is a specialist in the languages, scripts and inscriptions of ancient Syria, Jordan and Arabia. He was also the mentor of the epigraphist and linguist Ahmad Al-Jallad.[5]