Dr Ingrid Dillo was Deputy Director at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) in the Netherlands for 10 years. She is now affiliated with the institute as senior advisor. Ingrid holds a PhD in history and has worked in the field of policy development for the last 35 years. Among her areas of expertise are research data management and the certification of digital repositories. Ingrid is chair of the Board of the RDA Europe (Research Data Alliance). She led the EU-funded FAIRsFAIR and FAIR-IMPACT projects.