Ian S Fraser AO, MD, BSc (Hons), FRANZCOG, FRCOG, CREI, FFFP (Hon), DUa, is Professor in Reproductive Medicine at the University of Sydney, and immediate-past Head of the Department of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.  He is a Past-President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and is currently Honorary Secretary of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO).  He is a member of the International Committee for Contraception Research and a Senior Scientific Adviser to the Population Council, New York.  He is a past-Chairman of the World Health Organization Steering Committee for Long-Acting Hormonal Methods of Contraception.

He gained his initial medical and specialist training in Edinburgh and Oxford, and now has a wide range of specialised clinical and research interests within reproductive medicine, specifically in the fields of menstrual disorders, endometriosis, contraception, menopause transition and gynaecological endoscopic surgery.  He has current major interests in terminologies and definitions around menstrual disorders, mechanisms of abnormal uterine bleeding and in research into endometrial function in endometriosis.  He has been responsible for over 500 scientific publications, with over 400 original scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.