Anu Realo (PhD) is a personality and cross-cultural psychologist. She is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick, the United Kingdom, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She is Past President of the European Association for Personality Psychology and a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea. Her research focuses on cultural and individual variation in personality traits, subjective well-being, values, and social capital; she has collaborated widely with researchers from across a range of disciplines and cultures. In total, she has published more than 180 papers or book chapters, including more than 130 articles in high quality peer-reviewed international journals. She is active in public engagement work on topics relating to her research; her work has been extensively covered and cited by national and international news media.