Bertrand Meyer is one of the pioneers of modern software engineering, CTO of Eiffel, Software Professor emeritus of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich, and currently Provost and Professor of Software Engineering at the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT), and holds associated positions at Politecnico di Milano and the University of Toulouse. He is Director of the annual software engineering summer school on Elba Island, Italy and his latest book is: Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly. He is known for his best-selling books such as “Object-Oriented Software Construction”, the reference work in the field. He designed Eiffel to provide the programming community with a feature-rich yet simple-to-learn language and method for producing reliable software. He introduced the Design by Contract™ methodology, which lies at the center of the Eiffel approach. Bertrand Meyer received a master's degree in engineering from the École Polytechnique in Paris, a second master's degree from Stanford University, and a PhD from the Université de Nancy. He had a technical and managerial career for nine years at Électricité de France, and for three years was a member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara.