Professor Nicoletta Colombo graduated in medicine in 1980, completing specialty training in obstetrics and gynaecology in 1984 at the University of Milan, Italy. From 1984 until 1986 she worked as Clinical Research Associate at the Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University. Professor Colombo then worked as a member of the Junior and later the Senior Faculty at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Milan. In 1994 she became Deputy Director and in 2001 Director of the Medical Gynaecologic Oncology Division, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy. Since 2002 she has held the position of Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. In 2008, she became Director of the Ovarian Cancer Centre at IEO and in 2014 Chair of the Program of Gynaecology. Author of several publications in the field of gynaecologic oncology, she is member of several professional societies such as ASCO, SGO, and IGCS. She is also Past President of ESGO and was Chair of the first ESMO-ESGO-ESTRO Consensus Conference in endometrial cancer ( 2015) and the first ESMO-ESGO Consensus Conference in ovarian Cancer (2018). She has been subject Editor of ESMO Clinical Guidelines for Gynecological Cancers from 2016 and 2020. In 2020 she received the IGCS life-time achievement award.