Professor Graham Wright is a chartered information systems practitioner with a clinical and managerial background. He has been an active Fellow of the British Computer Society and held the offices of Chair and Treasurer for the British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum (BCS Health) and UK representative to the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). He moved to South Africa to take up the Chair of Health Sciences Research at Walter Sisulu University in 2009. and Adjunct Professor in Health Informatics at Fort University in 2014. He joined Rhodes University in 2018. He has recently been elected as a founding member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.