Professor Antonio Ceriello is Research Consultant at the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain and Research Consultant at IRCCS MultiMedica, Milan, Italy. Professor Ceriello has published widely in the area of diabetes with over 450 original papers and several book chapters. His current h-index is 86. Prof. Ceriello has been consultant of the National Institutes of Health, U.S.A. for the program of the research 2003-2005, related to cardiovascular disease and type 1 diabetes, and member of the writing committee of the American Heart Association of the guidelines on “Acute Hyperglycemia and Acute Coronary Syndromes”. He has also chaired the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) committee for the development in 2008, and in the 2011 for the update of “Guideline for Management of Postmeal Glucose ”. Currently, is the President of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Study Group on “Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases”. He also served as Review of the 2012 “European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice” and for the 2013 “European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases developed in collaboration with the EASD “. He has also been a Member of the Board for the development of the “2019 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases developed in collaboration with the EASD “. Actually he is involved as Expert in the ESC 2020-2022 program for the training of the European cardiologists on the use of the new antidiabetic drugs. From 2009 to 2012 he has been member of the Board of the IDF Europe and Consultant of the EU Commission for the Framework “Diabetes as a model of chronic care management”. He served as Referee of the European Commission for the 2017 grant program regarding diabetes of the HORIZON 2020 Program. He also served as Associate Editor of “Diabetes Care” from 2003 to 2011 and Associate Editor of “Diabetic Medicine” from 2005 to 2016. From July 1st 2016 he has been appointed as Editor in Chief of “Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice”, the official IDF journal. Currently he is also in the Editorial Board of “Cardiovascular Diabetology”. Prof. Ceriello is the winner in the 1984 of the “Italian Annual Award for Young Researcher”, in the 1990 of the “National Award for Research on the Pathophysiology of Diabetic Complications”, in the 1998 of the “National Award Italian Society of Diabetology”, in the 2004 of the “Camillo Golgi Prize” of the EASD and in the 2017 of the “Hellmut Mehnert Award”, during the IDF 2017 Meeting.