Gianluca Pellino is a European board-certified colorectal surgeon, with a PhD in Translational Medicine, a Lecturer at Università della Campania, Napoli, Italy, and a colorectal research coordinator at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona. He worked at the University Hospital "La Fe", Valencia, spent the ESCP 6-month Fellowship 2016 at the Royal Marsden, London, and attended St. Mark's Hospital as a colorectal fellow. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the European Board of Surgery, and the American College of Surgeons. He chairs Y-ESCP, and joins the ESCP Guidelines Committee, SoMe, and Cohort Studies subcommittees. He is a member of the Y-ECCO Committee. He co-chaired EuroSurg, and is vice-chair of ItSurg. He was Assistant Editor of the British Journal of Surgery, and joins several Editorial Boards, including Techniques in Coloproctology and BJS Open. He has expertise in global collaboration, guidelines development, and research. Field of interest: IBD, surgical site infections.