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Dr Virginia Barbour is Executive Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, 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 currently also has a part time position as Professor in the Office of Research Ethics & Integrity at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is Chair of COPE.

She has a medical degree from Cambridge University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She has been involved in the development of a number of 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 has an academic title as Professor at Griffith University, Queensland and is also an honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. She is based in Brisbane, Australia.