Stefan De Hert, MD, PhD, FESAIC is Consultant Anesthesiologist at Ghent University Hospital and Professor of Anesthesiology at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Prof. De Hert acted as chair of the ESA Scientific Committee and was President of the ESA from2017 to 2019. He is currently chair of the Education and Training Committee and board member of the ESAIC, board member of the Be SARPP. and council member of the WFSA. He is Executive Section Editor of the section Cardio vascular Pathophysiology and Outcomes of Anesthesia & Analgesia, Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia and Editor-in-Chief of the Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica.