Brian Fitzgerald is currently Principal Investigator in Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, having previously held the roles of Director and Chief Scientist. He holds an endowed professorship, the Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business & Technology, at the University of Limerick, where he also served as Vice President Research. In 2020, he was elected President of the Association for Information Systems, the global body for information systems worldwide. He holds a PhD from the University of London and his research interests lie primarily in software development, encompassing open source and inner source, crowdsourcing software development, agile and global software development. His publications include 17 books, and over 200 peer-reviewed articles in the leading journals and conferences in both Information Systems and Software Engineering. His research projects have received over €115m in peer-reviewed funding. Prior to taking up an academic position, he worked in the software industry for about 12 years, including positions with Citibank in Frankfurt and Brussels.