Gianluigi Savarese is an Italian/Swedish cardiologist, currently Professor of Cardiology at Karolinska Institutet (Department of Clinical Science and Education) where he is head of the Center for Heart Failure and Arrhythmia. He is also Senior Consultant for Heart Failure at the Southern Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Over the last few years, he has published >400 articles on top peer reviewed journals. Major focus of his research is heart failure, with a particular interest in implementing use of guidelines recommended treatments, and phenotyping heart failure for improving clinical trial design. He is heavily involved in registry studies (Swedish Heart Failure Registry, ESC registries) and clinical trials, and he is expert in big data analysis. He is Secretary of the Heart Failure Association and he has served as board member and secretary of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy of the European Society of Cardiology. Among others, he is Deputy Editor of European Journal of Heart Failure, EHJ-Open, and Associate Editor of JACC: Heart Failure.