Professor Dipak Kalra, PhD, FRCGP, FBCS, is president of the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data. He has led multiple EC and IMI projects, as well as ISO standards, in EHR interoperability standards, data protection, business models, and the reuse of EHRs in clinical research. His current projects include the success factors for scaling up the trustworthy reuse of health data for research and learning health systems, as well as empowering patients through digital tools and better health information. He qualified in Medicine at the University of London in 1982, became a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1993, obtained his PhD in Health Informatics in 2003, became a fellow of the British Computer Society in 2009, and became a fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics in 2019. He is a retired professor of Health Informatics at University College London and Visiting Professor at the University of Gent.