Palmiero Monteleone is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Salerno, Italy. He also coordinates the clinical and research activities of the Eating Disorders Center of the Campania Region at the University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy. He has been Chair of the Eating Disorders Sections of both the European Psychiatric Association and the World Psychiatric Association. He was a member of the ICD-11 expert consultation group on the classification of feeding and eating disorders, working on the development of both the ICD-11 and the CDDR in this area, and a member of the task force on eating disorders of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry. He has been Secretary and he is currently President of the Italian Society of Eating Psychopathology.