Professor, University of Toronto; Infectious Disease Specialist, Sinai Health System (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada).

Professor of Medical Microbial Pathogenesis, Karolinska Institutet; Head, Center for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Laboratory Lead, Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), South Africa; Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand; Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town.

Professor and Chair of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Zurich; Director, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.

Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA.

Clinical Professor, University of Western Australia; Paediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist, Perth Children’s Hospital; Head, Healthy Skin & ARF Prevention, The Kids Research Institute Australia.

Professor and Head of Medical Microbiology, Cardiff University; Honorary Consultant Microbiologist, UK Health Security Agency, UK.

Medical Officer, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA.

Professor of Medical Microbiology, Université Paris Cité; Head of Bacteriology, Cochin Hospital (AP‑HP); Head, National Reference Centre for Streptococci, Paris, France.

Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta; Clinical Microbiologist, Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Alberta Precision Laboratories), Canada.

Executive Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Professor, University of Western Australia; Infectious Diseases Consultant, Perth Children’s Hospital, Australia.

Team Leader, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne; Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Professor of Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.

Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine (Anschutz Medical Campus), USA.

Professor of Vaccinology and Immunology, St George’s, University of London; Principal Scientist, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit; UK Health Security Agency, UK.

Lead, Streptococcus Laboratory, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA.

Professor of Paediatric Cardiology, University of Cape Town; Vice-President, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), South Africa.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA.

Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Honorary Consultant, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.

Professor of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon; Group Leader, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal.

Professor, University of Cape Town; Chief Specialist Scientist and Director, Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council.

Professor of Infection and Immunity, University of Auckland; Principal Investigator, Maurice Wilkins Centre, New Zealand.

Professor of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Amsterdam University Medical Centers (University of Amsterdam); Head, Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis, The Netherlands.

Professor of Microbiology, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Head of Paediatrics, Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.

Research Director, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.

Dean and Professor of Vaccinology, University of the Witwatersrand; Director, Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA), South African Medical Research Council, South Africa.

Professor of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London; Honorary Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK.

Principal Staff Scientist, Wellcome Sanger Institute; Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK.

Professor of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute; Director of Microbial Informatics, Houston Methodist, USA.

Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology Paulo de Góes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Clinical Associate Professor in Infectious Disease, Imperial College London; Honorary Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Group Leader, University of Oxford, UK.

Professor of Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.

Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego; Distinguished Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, USA.