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 is a recnt past Board Member and Secretary-Treasurer of the European Society of Cardiology and Chaired the ESC Statutes revision Task Force. Prof graham was President and Chair of the Charity, the Adelaide Health Foundation. He was 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 dyslipidaemia and an author of the 2019 Guidelines. He was co-Chair of an expert group that has been advising the World Health Organisation on cardiovascular risk estimation, and is now Co-Chair of the ESC’s Cardiovascular Risk Collaboration and of the ESC’s SURF international audit of risk factor recording and control