Dr William Harrop-Griffiths is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. He graduated in 1981 from Oxford University and St Thomas’s Hospital, London and trained mainly in the London area, apart from a year spent in Seattle, where he was exposed to regional anaesthesia, became hooked and is now a life-long addict. He is an elected member of the Council of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the President of the Triservice Anaesthetic Society and the Immediate Past President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland (AAGBI). He is fond of speaking in public, and his lectures have often been described as “a victory of style over content”. He takes this as a compliment. His clinical interests are orthopaedic, obstetric and vascular anaesthesia. His non-clinical interests include riding horses, bicycles and motorcycles. His passions are his family, English grammar and not falling off horses, bicycles or motorcycles.