Alexandra Papadopoulou is Head of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the First Department of Pediatrics of the University of Athens at the Athens Children's Hospital "Agia Sofia". She specialized in Pediatric Gastroenterology at the University of Birmingham, UK and she has a MD from the same University. She has been a member of ESPGHAN since 1998, on whose behalf she has organized numerous summer schools and postgraduate courses, as well as the 49th Annual Meeting of ESPGHAN in Athens. She has served as Education Secretary of the ESPGHAN Gastroenterology Committee (2012-2017), ESPGHAN Public Affairs Committee (2013-2015), ESPGHAN National Societies Executive Committee (2015-2017), ESPGHAN Council (2015-2016), and is currently the Chair of ESPGHAN EGID WG and a member of the Core Group of ESPGHAN Endoscopy SIG. Over the past decade, she has co-authored numerous ESPGHAN guidelines and position papers. In Greece, she is a member of the National Nutrition Committee of the Hellenic Ministry of Health and a member of the Committee for Subspecialty in PGHN, while from 2017-2019, she was a member of the Committee of the Central Health Council of the Hellenic Ministry of Health for Pediatric Specialization and Pediatric Subspecialties.