Karl Andriessen, PhD, MSuicidology, BSW is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and a Research Fellow at the KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Belgium.  Karl’s involvement in the field of suicide bereavement and suicide prevention is rooted in clinical practice, starting 30 years ago in Belgium as a Social Worker in youth and family counselling and telephone crisis lines, followed by leading positions in suicide prevention, bereavement, community mental health, and policy development.  He serves as Co-Chair of the Special Interest Group on Suicide Bereavement of the International Association of Suicide Prevention and is an advisor to several projects in the field of suicide prevention and bereavement.  He is the recipient of several awards and has published widely, including the landmark handbook Postvention in action: The international handbook of suicide bereavement support (Hogrefe, 2017), and serves as Associate Editor of Death Studies.