Professor Banchob Sripa is a Senior Research Scholar, Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control of Opisthorchiasis (Southeast Asian Liver Fluke Disease), and Director of the Tropical Disease Research Center, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. Currently, Dr.Sripa is a panel member of the WHO Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG). He got a highest doctoral degree in Tropical Health from the University of Queensland, Australia and experienced several post-graduate trainings in pathology and global health.  He has been working as a lecturer for both undergraduate and graduate study for >30 years with over 50 MSc and PhD under his supervision. His research focus is mainly on human liver flukes in several aspects including their related cholangiocarcinoma, the bile duct cancer as well as other tropical diseases. Dr.Sripa is a world expert in pathology, pathogenesis and control of liver fluke infection and cholangiocarcinoma. His integrated liver fluke control program named “Lawa model” is one of the two showcases with success helminth control of WHO/NZD4 (2014).  Dr. Sripa has published >260 research articles, viewpoints, editorials and reviews in peer reviewed international journals and book chapters, such as Nature Genetics, Lancet Oncology, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Trends Parasitology, Cancer Science, Hepatology, Proteomics, PLOS Pathogens, Scientific Reports, Advances in Parasitology and elsewhere with high citation index, h = 51.  He was ranked as world expert in cholangiocarcinoma (2019), Helminths (2019) and Opisthorchiasis (2019-2021) by ExpertScape and is among world top 2% scientists in Mycology and Parasitology by Stanford University (2020). Recently, Dr.Sripa ranks #15 of the top 50 scientists with high citations in Thailand by AD Scientific Index (2021). He sits on the Deputy Editor of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Associate Editor of Tropical Medicine & International Health, and editorial boards of Infectious Diseases of Poverty (BMC Journal), Acta Tropica (Elsevier), J. Helminthology (Cambridge) and Tropical BioMedicine.  He is a Chief Guest Editor/Volume editor for 5 Special Issues on liver flukes in Acta Tropica (2003), Parasitology International (2012), Parasitology International (2017), Advances in Parasitology (2018), and Acta Tropica (2021). He has received several scientific research awards, the most prestige the Thailand Outstanding Scientist Award from the Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of H.M. the King – the King Award (2013) and the Thailand Research Fund Senior Research Scholar (2013).  Dr.Sripa is a former panel member of the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) panel of experts for biological agents of cancer, Disease Reference Group on Helminths (DRG), Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG 1), WHO advisers, and ex- President of the Regional Network of Asian Schistosomiasis and Other Helminth Zoonoses (RNAS+).