Guido van Meersbergen (PhD) – assistant professor in Early Modern Global History at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on early modern diplomacy, travel, ethnography, empire, and the Dutch and English East India Companies. He is the author of Ethnography and Encounter: The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia (Brill: 2022), and co-editor of Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Routledge: 2022) and the special issue ‘Gift and Tribute in Early Modern Diplomacy: Afro-Eurasian Perspectives’ (Diplomatica 2.2: 2020)