Maurizio Pompili is a Full Professor and Chair of Psychiatry as part of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his M.D. degree, after training in Psychiatry. He is the Director of the Residency Training Program in Psychiatry of his faculty, the Director of the University Psychiatric Clinic, and the Director of the Suicide Prevention Center at Sant’Andrea Hospital in Rome. He is the President of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technique degree program at Sapienza University of Rome. He has a doctoral degree in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences. He was also part of the Community at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA, where he received a fellowship in psychiatry. He was the recipient of the American Association of Suicidology’s 2008 Shneidman Award for “Outstanding contributions in research in suicidology”. He is now Co-Chair of the IASP Special Interest Group in Risk Resilience and Reasons for Living. He is also a member of the International Academy for Suicide Research and the American Association of Suicidology. He is also President of the Suicidology Section of the Italian Psychiatric Society.