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Peter Piot

Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Leading Researcher of Ebola and AIDS

Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Leading Researcher of Ebola and AIDS

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Peter Piot Biography

Peter Piot is the Director of the School and a Handa Professor of Global Health.

He has a medical degree from the University of Ghent (1974), and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Antwerp (1980). In 1976 he co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire while working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, and led research on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and women's health, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. He was a professor of microbiology, and of public health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, the Free University of Brussels, and the University of Nairobi, was a Senior Fellow at the University of Washington, a Scholar in Residence at the Ford Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was the Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College, London, and held the chair 2009/2010 "Knowledge against poverty" at the College de France.

He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008, and was an Associate Director of the Global Programme on AIDS of WHO. Under his leadership UNAIDS became the chief advocate for worldwide action against AIDS, also spearheading UN reform by bringing together 10 UN system organizations.

Professor Piot is the first Chair of Her Majesty’s Government’s Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research (SCOR) Board and is Chair of of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) USA and of the African Health Research Institute (AHRI), Durban, South Africa. He is Vice-Chair of the Global Health Innovation Technology Fund (GHIT), Tokyo, and member of the Board of the Novartis Foundation, Basel; the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI), and Sentebale. He is also a Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission on research and innovation for COVID-19.

He is the first Chair to lead Her Majesty’s Government’s Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research (SCOR) Board. He is Vice-Chair of the board of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund in Tokyo, Chair of the Global Burden of Disease Independent Advisory Committee, and Chair of the King Baudouin Foundation US. He is a member of the board for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), African Health Research Institute, Durban, and the Oxford Martin School. He was the Chair of the MRC Global Health Group and a member of the MRC Strategy Board. Previously he was President of the International AIDS Society, Chair of the WHO Ebola Science Committee and Chair of the European Forum for Forward Looking Activities.

Peter Piot is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences, and is also a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina of Germany, the Académie Nationale de Médecine of France, and of the Royal Academy of Medicine of his native Belgium, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

He has received numerous scientific and civic awards including an honorary doctorate from seven universities, the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, and Robert Koch Gold medal, (2015), the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Humanitarian Award (2017) and the Edinburgh Medal (2017). He was a 2014 TIME Person of the Year (The Ebola Fighters), and received the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health. In 2013 he was the laureate of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for Medical Research. He received the Thomas Parran Award from ASTDA, the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 2001, the Congressional Black Caucus Leadership Award in 2001, in Washington DC and the Frank A Calderone Prize in Public Health in 2003. He was awarded the Prix International INSERM, Paris, the RSTMH Manson Medal, and Bloomberg Hopkins Award. Peter Piot was knighted as a Baron in 1995 in his native Belgium, and awarded an Honorary Knighthood KCMG in 2016, and the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan (2018).

He has published over 600 scientific articles and 17 books, including his memoir 'No Time to Lose' in 2012 (WW Norton), translated into French, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Chinese; and 'AIDS between science and politics' in 2015 (Columbia University Press).

Besides English, he is fluent in French and Dutch (mother tongue).

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 12/09/2023.

Peter Piot Videos

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