Professor Dr. Thomas Danne is currently the Secretary General of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) and a member of the Consultative Section for Childhood and Adolescent Diabetes of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).

Thomas Danne is father of three children. He works in Hannover, Germany as Director of the Department of General Pediatrics and Endocrinology/Diabetology at the Kinderkrankenhaus auf der Bult, Hannover Medical School, Germany, which is the largest pediatric diabetes center in Germany. His other positions include President-elect of the German Diabetes Association (DDG) and Speaker of the German Working Group for Pediatric Diabetology (AGPD). He studied Medicine at the Free University Medical School in Berlin and did his pediatric training at the Charité Children´s Hospital of the Humboldt University Berlin. He is a former Research Fellow of the Joslin Diabetes Center of Harvard Medical School in Boston. His research interests include basic and clinical research in pediatric diabetology with special emphasis on new insulins, glucose sensors and insulin pumps.