Prof. Melanie J. Davies is and internationally acclaimed diabetes expert and the Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Leicester, UK. She is a clinician with over 25 years experience working as a diabetologist and physician. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator, one of only a handful in diabetes in the UK. She was recently listed among the top ten global diabetes experts. She has also been the lead author for the ADA/EASD Diabetes Management Guidelines in 2018. She is the principal investigator on a number of large global studies in the field of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. In the last three years she has had more than 180 peer review publications.