Dr François Durand is past head of the Hepatology Department & Liver Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Beaujon, Clichy and Professor of Hepatology at University Paris Cité, Paris, France. His main topics in research and teaching have been liver transplantation, complications of end stage cirrhosis (especially in the field of intensive care) and acute liver failure. Dr François Durand is cited in more than 450 publications in peer review journals in Hepatology, Gastroenterology Transplantation and Intensive Care Medicine with an author h-index of 87 (source, Scopus). He has been involved in many multicenter clinical trials in the fields of immunosuppression, management of complications of cirrhosis and viral hepatitis. He has been invited speakers for academic meetings on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD), the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), the European Society of Transplantation (ESOT), the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL), the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS). Dr François Durand has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Hepatology and is currently Deputy Editor of Transplantation, past secretary of the International Club of Ascites and Secretary General of the International Liver Transplant Society.