Ian Graham is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in Trinity College, Dublin, and Professor Emeritus of Preventive Cardiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was recently a Board Member and Secretary-Treasurer of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and Chair of the Adelaide Health Foundation. Currently, he serves on the ESC’s Nominating committee and Statutes and Governance revision Task Force He was a member of the 6th Joint European Societies Task Force on the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in clinical practice and of its Prevention Implementation Committee, having Chaired the 4th Task Force. He was co-Chair of the 2016 European Guidelines on the management of dyslipidaemias and an author of the 2019 Guidelines. Prof Graham is Project leader of the EU Concerted Action Project SCORE (Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation) and of its electronic derivative, HeartScore. He is a member of the EuroAspire cardiovascular risk factor audit, and Project Leader of a simplified international audit of cardiovascular risk factor control, SURF (Survey of Risk Factors). On behalf of the Board of the ESC, he established a Patient engagement initiative. He is Co-Chair of the ESC’s Cardiovascular Risk Collaboration (CRC) an international consortium that is researching new aspects of cardiovascular risk estimation. Research interests include the natural history of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular risk estimation, blood lipids, health policy and planning and the evaluation of therapies. He has written extensively in these areas.