Celso Arango is a psychiatrist who has worked as a clinician, researcher, and educator in psychiatry and mental health, notably in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosis, and mental health promotion.
[6] Between 2012 and 2014, he was the Fundación Alicia Koplowitz Endowed Chair for Child Psychiatry at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and he has been a board member[7] of the European Brain Council (the European Commission's advisory body) since 2013.
In December 2014, he was appointed chairman of the National Commission for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Specialty by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.
Arango is a past president of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, having served the 2019-2022 term.
[8] In 2022, he was appointed as president of the Spanish Psychiatry Society [9] and member of The Royal Academy of Medicine of Spain.