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Dr. Jean-Pierre Michel is an emeritus professor of medicine at Geneva Medical University and an honorary professor of medicine at Limoges University (France), Beijing University Hospital (China), and an adjunct professor at McGill University (Canada). He received numerous international lifetime achievement awards, including the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Geriatric Medicine Society. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers with over 120,000 readers and approximately 28,000. He co-authored the first WHO Global Report on "Ageing and Health" (2015) and is the first editor of the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine (2017 & 2025) and of the European Academies report on "Transforming the Future of Ageing" (2019). Professor Finbarr C. Martin (BSc MB BS MSc FRCP) trained in London and was geriatrician at Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals where the team developed and evaluated innovative new service models for older people in acute, post-acute and surgical settings. He was awarded an honorary professorship at King's College London. He served as president of the British and European Geriatric Medicine Societies, led the England Falls and Fragility Fractures Audit programme 2010-17, chaired the editorial board of Age and Ageing 2020-2025, and was non-executive board member of NICE 2013-16. He remains research active and contributes to the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing. Professor Hidenori Arai is the President of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG). He is also the President of the Japanese Association on Sarcopenia and Frailty. After graduating from Kyoto University School of Medicine in 1984, he became a Professor in the Department of Human Health Science at Kyoto University School of Medicine in 2009. Then, in 2015, he moved to NCGG as the Deputy Director. He then became the Director in 2018 and the President of NCGG in 2019. He is a co-chairman of the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia and the Asian Working Group for Cachexia and is President-elect of the IAGG-Asia Oceania Region. His expertise is frailty, sarcopenia, and dementia. Professor Tan Maw Pin is the Head of Geriatric Medicine at Universiti Malaya, with over 25 years of clinical, academic, and leadership experience in ageing and geriatric care. Trained in the United Kingdom, she completed specialist training in geriatric and general medicine before returning to Malaysia to develop national geriatric services and research. She leads the AGELESS programme on cognitive frailty and healthy ageing, has secured major competitive research funding, and has published extensively. An experienced academic editor and professional leader, she brings regional and global perspectives to her role as Co-Editor. Professor Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD, is Professor in Clinical Geriatrics at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Center for Alzheimer Research and senior geriatrician and Director for Research & Development of Medical Unit Geriatric Medicine at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Part of her Nordic Brain Network multidisciplinary research team (around 100 researchers and clinical staff) is located at University of Eastern Finland and Imperial College London, UK, where she has part time position as Professor. In September 2025, she was appointed Rodman Family Endowed Professor of Gerontology at the Yale School of Nursing and Professor of Gerontology at the Yale School of Medicine. Her frontline research findings have been published in leading journals, and she has received several international research awards and recognitions.