Peter Piot, Prof.

Biography

 Peter Piot is the Director of the School and a Professor of Global Health. He is the Chair of the MRC Global Health Group and a member of the MRC Strategy Board. He is a member of the Board of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund in Tokyo. Previously he was President of the International AIDS Society and Chair of the King Baudouin Foundation and Chair if the European Forum for Forward Looking Activities. In 2009-2010 he was the Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College, London. 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 spear heading UN reform by bringing together 10 UN system organizations. He has a medical degree 

Research Interest

 Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics