Daniela Filipescu, MD, PhD, DESA, FESAIC is a cardiac anaesthesiologist, Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (AIC) at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy and chief of the Cardiac AIC Department II at the Emergency Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Bucharest, Romania. She is currently the President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and co-chair the WFSA working group on perioperative Patient Blood Management.