Professor Robert Landewé is a professor of rheumatology at the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Professor Diamant Thaçi is Director and Professor at the Institute and Comprehensive Centre for Inflammation Medicine, University of Lübeck, Germany. Professor Thaçi is also Chairman of the Inflammatory Board at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck Campus.

Professor Frank Behrens is Professor of Translational Rheumatology, Immunology and Inflammation Medicine and Head of the Inflammation Clinic, University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Deputy Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine & Pharmacology (ITMP), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune-Mediated Disease (CIMD).

Professor Lars Erik Kristensen is Head of Research at the Parker Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and holds an honorary doctoral position at Lund University, Sweden, and a professorship at Copenhagen University, Denmark. He received his medical degree from Copenhagen University and a PhD in Clinical Medicine from Lund University. He later specialised in internal medicine and rheumatology. Professor Kristensen also completed a postdoc at Karolinska University, Sweden.

Professor Brian Kirby is Consultant Dermatologist at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, and Full Clinical Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Lucian Ionescu joined UCB in 2006, and since then, has contributed to building the immunology franchise through a track record of strategic and operational leadership roles, in Global Brand Leadership (Cimzia Pre/Launch and Commercial Implementation), Strategic Projects and Early Medicines (Bimzelx Early Development), Medical and Clinical Affairs, Global Corporate, in Europe and the United States.

Professor Laure Gossec is Professor of Rheumatology in Sorbonne Université and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France. Professor Gossec has a half-time clinical position where she mainly sees patients with inflammatory arthritis, and a half-time teaching and research position.

Professor Lluís Puig is Director of Dermatology at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, and Professor of Dermatology at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Professor José-Manuel Carrascosa-Carrillo is the Head of the Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and has been Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2009.