Neil Jackson is an architect and architectural historian who holds the Charles Reilly Chair in the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool. He previously taught at the Universities of Leeds and Nottingham, and at the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, California. He is currently a Professorial Research Associate in the Japanese Research Centre at SOAS (the School of African and Oriental Studies), University of London, and President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. He has published widely on 19th and 20th-century architecture in Britain, America and Japan.