Marco Metra is Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Institute of Cardiology of the Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences, and Public Health, the University and Civil Hospitals of Brescia, Italy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Heart Failure, the official journal of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Senior Consulting Editor of the European Heart Journal and member of the Editorial board of many other scientific journals. He has chaired the 2021 ESC guidelines on heart failure with Professor Theresa MacDonagh. His research activity is focused on the treatment of heart failure and its comorbidities. He has had a leading role in multiple trials of new therapies in patients with heart failure and has Authored more than 600 articles in peer-reviewed journals, with a current Google Scholar h-index of 87.