Prof. Dr. Peter Piot

Peter Piot MD PhD is a Belgian Professor of Global Health, and former Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He was Special Advisor to the EC President on European and Global Health Security, and is visiting professor at KU Leuven, and NU Singapore, and a Senior Advisor to the Gates Foundation. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the UN. He co-discovered Ebola virus , and led research on HIV, women’s health, and infectious diseases. He worked at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp; the University of Washington; the University of Nairobi; Imperial College London; the College de France. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the American, British, French and Belgian Academies of Medicine. He was awarded a Belgian Barony, a UK knighthood, the the Virchow Prize, Canada Gairdner Award , Robert Koch Gold Medal , Prince Mahidol Award, Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize , Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights, WHO Life Achievement Award, and was a 2014 TIME Person of the Year. He published over 650 articles and 17 books, including No Time to Lose.