guidance a promoter of treatment-outcome evaluation as a surveillance and research tool and an author on the 2013 WHO educational package supporting countries to develop national strategic plans and to apply to the Global Fund for funding. He demonstrated with experimental data the adequacy of the XDR-TB definition, the impossibility of using the TDR definition and the need to stratify outcomes beyond XDR-TB. He coordinated the USAID-funded project, which developed a tool that supported countries in the identification of gaps and in the proposal of solutions to prevent and manage MDR- and XDR-TB. This has become the standard tool used by the WHO Green Light Committee. He is the coordinator of the European TB Elimination movement, which involves the conceptualisation of TB elimination, the development of the first framework, creation of a feasibility white paper within the ERS Forum initiative, a European survey on preparedness and finalisation of the WHO framework resulting from the ERS/WHO event in Rome, Italy (2014). Giovanni Battista Migliori has created and directed over 100 WHO training courses for consultants/managers of: TB and TB/ HIV, the public–private mix, the laboratory, infection control and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. He is currently an Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal and the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. He was previously Secretary General of ERS. Graham Bothamley Graham Bothamley has been a respiratory physician for 35 years and has looked after 4000 patients with TB. He gained a PhD with the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital (London, UK) in TB monoclonal antibodies, diagnostics and pathogenesis. He is currently a member of the TB Centre and Immunology and Infections Department at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (London, UK) and at the Blizard Institute (Queen Mary University of London, London, UK). Graham Bothamley leads the British Thoracic Society (BTS) TB advisory group, is Head of the Respiratory Infections Assembly at the European Respiratory Society and is on the steering committee of TBnet as Past Chair. Raquel Duarte Raquel Duarte is a Portuguese pulmonologist, with a Masters in Public Health and Health Economics and a PhD in Public https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10031218 xi