Gunnar Kahlmeter, M.D., Ph.D., Head of the EUCAST Development Laboratory and the Swedish Reference Laboratory for phenotypic susceptibility testing. Former president of ESCMID (2012-14) and Chair of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing 2001 – 2012, EUCAST Technical Data Coordinator and webmaster 2012 – cntd. GK has been in clinical microbiology 1971 – cntd and between 1985 and 2016 he was the head of three microbiology laboratories.