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Professor, Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Senior Advisor, Gates Foundation
Visiting Professor, KU Leuven
Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore

Peter Piot MD PhD is a Professor of Global Health and former Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Senior Advisor at the Gates Foundation, and visiting professor at the KU Leuven, and the National University of Singapore.

He was Special Advisor to EC President von der Leyen on Health Security and was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the UN. He co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, and led research on HIV, women’s health and infectious diseases. His MD is from Ghent and PhD from Antwerp, and worked at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp; the University of Washington, Seattle; the University of Nairobi; Imperial College London; the College de France, Paris.

He is a member of the Belgian, American, British, and French Academies of Medicine, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.  He is Chair of the Strategic Committee of the Pasteur Network, Paris; the Advisory Committee of the Global Burden of Disease, Seattle; of PREPARE, Singapore; and of JIHS, the Japan Institute of Health Security; and was a founding Board Member of CEPI, and of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, Malaria.

He was made a Baron in his native Belgium, and received a UK Knighthood, and the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, Japan. His awards include the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, Robert Koch Gold Medal, Prince Mahidol Award, Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights, Paul Harris Fellow, WHO Life Achievement Award, and was a 2014 TIME Person of the Year. He has published over 650 scientific articles and 17 books, including No Time to Lose, available in 5 languages.