Keith was a keynote speaker at the 8th Asian Spectroscopy Conference (ASC2023) will be held in Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan from September 3 to 7, 2023 (http://www2.riken.jp/lab/spectroscopy/ASC2021/index.html). Keith’s talk “Using metal complexes to open the door to long-lived excited states” dealt with the use of intra-ligand charge-transfer states as long-lived transients.