Head of Anaesthesiology, Pain & Palliative Care at Benedictus Hospital Tutzing at University of Munich and the Chair of the Pain Centre Lake Starnberg, Feldafing, Germany. He specializes in neuropathic and mixed pain, co-developed painDETECT and serves as examiner for the European Diploma in Pain Medicine by the European Pain Federation.

Director of the Leuven Centre for Algology & Pain Management at the University Hospitals of Leuven and clinical professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, where he teaches pain management, pharmacology and evidence based medicine at the medical school.

Head of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy and Vice Chair of Neurology at Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel, in Germany. A global expert in neuropathic pain, served in leadership roles within IASP, NeuPSIG and German pain societies.

Professor in Neurology, Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Disease Unit at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Midland, Texas, USA.

Specialist anesthesiologist and Director of the Pain Management Clinic at Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. A past President of the South African Society of Anesthesiologists (SASA) and PAINSA, he is the past chairperson of the WFSA Acute Pain Committee and edits the Journal of PAINSA.

Orthopaedic surgeon specializing in spine and pain management. Formerly a consultant at Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, his practice focuses on orthopedic interventional pain, and spinal surgery.

President of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO). Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Aspects of Musculoskeletal Health and Aging. Protein Research Chair at the Biochemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Rheumatologist and Associate Professor at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, in Manila, Philippines. Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at UST Hospital. Vice-Chair of the Asia Pacific Panel of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) and is a Council Member of the Asian Federation of Osteoporosis Societies. Former President of both the Philippine Rheumatology Association and the Osteoporosis Society of the Philippines Foundation.

Associate Professor of Rheumatology at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, UK. Board Member of the ESCEO, Associate Editor of Rheumatology and is on the Editorial Boards of Calcified Tissues International and Ageing Clinical and Experimental Research. Co-founder of the Clinical AI Interest Group at the Alan Turing Institute.

Consultant Diabetologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield, where he also serves as Research Director for Diabetes and Endocrinology. He is a Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Head of the Diabetes Care Unit at University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and an expert in cardiometabolic medicine. She holds honorary roles at Baker Institute and CUHK, and serves on ADA/EASD and WHO global diabetes initiatives.

Anesthesiologist and pain specialist at Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. She holds advanced qualifications in pain management from the University of Sydney and currently serves as Chairman of the Local Arrangement Committee (LAC) for International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) World Congress of Pain (WCP) 2026. Former President of the Thai Association for the Study of Pain.

President of the Fondazione Paolo Procacci, a Rome-based NGO focused on pain research and education. Former Chair of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at the University of L’Aquila, Italy, where he started and directed all the Academic Anesthesia and Pain Medicine programs.

Medical Doctor specialized in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, with a PhD in Sport Sciences. Adjunct Professor at the University of Salento, Italy. Team physician for the Italian national wheelchair basketball team. National Councilor for the Manual Medicine and Interventional Physiatry sections of the Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.

Scientific Responsible of the Institute of General Practice and Public Health in Bolzano/Italy.

PhD in Medical-Surgical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Consultant in Interventional and Surgical Pain Management with clinical training in Anesthesia and Pain Therapy. Former researcher at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research. Completed advanced studies in biostatistics and machine learning at the University of Padua and Harvard University.