Francis Irving (born 1974)[1] is a British software engineer, freedom of information activist and former CEO of ScraperWiki.

[2] He received a first class degree in mathematics in 1995 as a student at Lincoln College, Oxford.

[7] He co-founded Public Whip with Julian Todd and became a developer of the affiliated TheyWorkForYou website,[8] a project which parses raw Hansard data to track how members vote in the UK Parliament.

Initially risking prosecution for re-using the raw data which was under crown copyright, the developers of Public Whip were later successful in getting permission to use it.

[3] Iving has collaborated with Ben Goldacre at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science on a European Union (EU) clinical trials tracker and software for tracking retraction in academic publishing.