Mina Gaga Mina Gaga is a consultant pulmonolologist at Athens Chest Hospital (Athens, Greece), where she also served as Medical Director. She started her career at Athens Chest Hospital, and then moved to the UK, to the Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Imperial College and the Royal Brompton Hospital (London, UK), where she was Research Fellow and later Visiting Academic. Mina served as Assistant Professor at Athens University and Director of the 7th Respiratory Medicine Department and Asthma Centre at Athens Chest Hospital, as well as Medical Director of the hospital, which is the biggest centre for respiratory medicine in Greece. Her appointments involved mainly clinical work and educating students and trainees, as well as administration. Mina’s research focuses on asthma, particularly severe asthma and pathophysiological pathways but also quality patient care. She has been involved as principal investigator in multiple clinical trials, has been active internationally in guideline development for severe asthma and lung cancer screening, and has published extensively in these research areas. She, moreover, has an important international role: she has served as Secretary General and later President of the European Respiratory Society, Secretary of the European Board of Accreditation in Pneumology (EBAP), advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and as an Executive Committee Member of the Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD). Since August 2021, Mina has been the Alternate Minister of Health in Greece, and since September she has also been a member of the Standing Committee of the European WHO office. https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10022722 ix