Professor Ross Naylor is Professor of Vascular Surgery at the Leicester Vascular Institute, Leicester, United Kingdom and is a Past President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VASGBI; 2011-2012). He has coedited three textbooks of vascular surgery, authored 77 book chapters and co-authored 529 peer reviewed publications. His specialist clinical and research interests are in carotid and cerebral vascular disease. Professor Naylor has served on the Councils of the VSGBI, (2006-2012), the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS; 2010-2016) and the World Federation of Vascular Societies (2018-current). He has served on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Surgery (2000-2005), the Journal of Vascular Surgery (2003-2008; 2016- 2020) and the European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery (EJVES; 2006-2016). He is a past Editor in Chief of EJVES and was awarded an honorary membership of the ESVS in 2018. He has served as co-chairman of the 2017 and 2022 ESVS guidelines on the management of carotid and vertebral artery disease.