Djillali Annane is a professor in medicine at University Versailles – University Paris Saclay. He is director of General ICU at Raymond Poincaré Hospital, director of IHU PROMETHEUS, and Honorary Dean of Medical School Simone Veil. He has contributed to international and multi-disciplinary guidelines, to about 700 peer–reviewed articles and about 170 book chapters. He is the Chair of the Health Ministry Task Force against Sepsis, member of the board of governors of the American Hospital of Paris,, member of several WHO Working Groups, and past was Chief Counsellor of the French Minister of Health, and President of the French Society of Intensive Care Medicine.