Virginia (Ginny) Barbour is Co-Lead, Office for Scholarly Communications, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is Director of Open Access Australasia (previously AOASG), a position she has held since 2015. In 2004, she was one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine. She then became Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine, and then Medicine Editorial Director, finally becoming Medicine and Biology Editorial Director of PLOS from 2014 until 2015. She was Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) from 2012-May 2017. She has a medical degree from Cambridge University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She has been involved in the development and refinement of several reporting guidelines including CONSORT, PRISMA and TIDieR statements. She has been and is currently involved with a number of Open Access, publishing, and ethics initiatives. She is the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and Chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee. She is a Plan S Ambassador. She writes for the Conversation. She is on the NHMRC’s Research Quality Steering Committee. Her ORCID profile is here http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-2440