João Filipe Raposo, graduated in Medicine in 1988 in Lisbon; PhD in Medicine – Endocrinology in 2004 in Lisbon. Consultant of Endocrinology at APDP – Diabetes Portugal since 2006. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Public Health in the NOVA Medical School of Lisbon; Clinical Director of APDP – Diabetes Portugal and President of the Portuguese Society of Diabetology. He is also Chair-Elect of IDF-Europe and Member of the Executive Committee of the DESG (Diabetes Education Study Group)

Didac Mauricio, MD PhD, is Director of the Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, and Professor with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic & Central University of Catalonia (UVic/UCC). He is currently serving as Scientific Director of the Spanish excellence diabetes research network CIBER of Diabetes and Associated Metabolic diseases (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, in Spain. He has published over 390 peer-reviewed articles. D. Mauricio has been principal investigator of multiple research projects funded by national and international agencies. He keeps a strong interest on current clinical issues in diabetes management, including randomised clinical trials and clinical research on diabetic complications, as well as in precision diabetes research. D. Mauricio serves as editorial board member of several scientific journals, and is currently a member of the Guideline Oversight Committee and the Global Council of the EASD.