David Ingram is Emeritus Professor of Health Informatics at UCL, President of openEHR, Director of openEHR Foundation and past Chair; and a Trustee of the OpenEyes Charity. He was appointed to the first Chair in Medical Informatics in the UK, in 1989, and went on to establish the UCL Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, in 1995, of which he was Director until his retirement in 2011. David led the foundational health record architecture research of the GEHR Project, within the EU, starting in 1991. From this and subsequent projects and collaborations emerged the openEHR Foundation – of which he was Founding Chair from 2002-2012 – and principal contributions of CHIME colleagues towards the CEN and ISO 13606 standards.