John Domingue is a Professor of Computer Science at the Open University (OU), Director of the Knowledge Media Institute, the OU's technology research and innovation centre, and the President of STI International, a semantics focused networking organisation. He has published over 280 refereed articles in the areas of semantics, the Web, distributed ledgers and eLearning. His current work focuses on how a combination of blockchain and linked data technologies can be used to process personal data in a decentralised trusted manner and how this can be applied in the educational domain. In March 2019 Domingue was awarded a fellowship by the British Blockchain Association of the United Kingdom (FBBA) and in February 2020 John was awarded an honorary professorship by Amity University.