Javed Iqbal is a veterinarian with MSc Microbiology and PhD in Virology.  After postdoctoral fellowships at Royal Veterinary College, London and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Surrey, UK, he joined the animal health industry in 2003.

First role in animal health industry was Regulatory Affairs Manager with Fort Dodge Animal Health.  Later he joined Novartis Animal Health in Switzerland as Pharmacovigilance Manager.  His last role with Novartis Animal Health was EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (EU QPPV).

Since 2015 Javed has been working with Elanco Pharmacovigilance in different roles.  His current role is oversight of Elanco PV activities in APAC, LATAM, Russia/Middle East Africa.

Javed is based in UK.

She is Technical Affairs Administration Manager at General Administration of Veterinary- Pharmaceuticals at Egyptian Drug Authority since 2021

She Holds a bachelor degree from faculty of Pharmacy Ain Shams University-Egypt year 2008 Has been working at Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) formerly known as Central Administration of Pharmaceutical Affairs-Ministry of Health since 2009

She has been working in the Veterinary Registration Department in EDA since 2014 and Became head of Veterinary Requests Department in 2019

She has also excellent communication & presentation skills, ability to set & achieve goals, cooperative attitude, handling problems and issues, creation and development

Dr. Syed Abid Hassan is founder of Bismil Welfare Society for social welfare works. He has done his Ph.D. in Chemistry, Diploma in Pharmacy, M.B.A. (in International Business). He is a Certified Lead Auditor for QMS (Quality Management System), by BSI (British Standard Institute) UK, and Certified Lead Auditor for ISO13485 (specialized in/for Medical Device) by IRCA (International Register of Certificated Auditor) UK. He is the member of RAPS (Regulatory Affairs Professional Society) – US, and CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement) UK. He has been participating as Chairperson, Moderator, Panelist, Speaker and Workshop leader in several national and international Conferences/Summits/Seminars and Workshops, in India, KSA, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Singapore, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada, Rome and USA etc. He is Adviser and Technical Committee Member (TCM) of several International Conference Organizations. He has authored several publications on different topics, like Removal of Malachite Green and Congo Red from Waste Water, Medical Device, Regulatory Affairs and New Chemical Entity in various International Journals/Magazines, in India, UAE, KSA, USA, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada, France and Rome etc. His book on “What and Why Regulatory Affairs”, “What you missed” and “Think it again” are soon to be available online. He is online trainer for many key subjects of pharma, like Medical Device, Regulatory Affairs, QMS, NCE/NME, ICH, NeeS/CTD/eCTD, Variations and GMP Compliance etc. at some E_Learning academies. He is managing owner of Bismil Academy for E_learning courses. He has more than 20 years+ experience of QA/Regulatory/Scientific Affairs and R&D. He has been working as QA/Compliance/R&D/Regulatory official in Jamjoom Pharmaceuticals Company since 2001. At present working as Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs at Dallah Pharma in KSA.

Dr. Mohamed Elsokary is a reproductive and developmental biology scientist. He cared about and exited toward new endeavors in the field of applied reproductive biology. The main area of interest is In-vitro fertilization and vitrification of mammalian gametes and embryos. Recently he is exploring the molecular mechanisms behind establishing freeze-free storing systems of male gametes by employing the glycomics approaches and techniques.

David Cock

Distributor Quality operations Lead, Global, Zoetis

As the world’s leading animal health company, Zoetis exists to nurture our world and humankind by advancing care for animals.  With nearly 70 years of experience innovating a leading portfolio and pipeline of medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and technologies, we stand by those caring for animals by providing solutions worldwide.

David has more than 43 years experience in Pharmaceutical Quality Operations in a variety of roles of which the last 18 years included veterinary medicines initially with Pfizer Animal Health and now with Zoetis. In 2011 he became responsible for the Pfizer Quality team responsible for Contract manufacturing of Veterinary products in Europe, Africa and Middle East and transferred to Zoetis in that role. In 2016 he transferred from Manufacturing to Distribution assuming the role of Regional Quality leader for Supply Chain and Logistics & Affiliate Quality Operations. for Europe, Africa and Middle East. In November he has taken a Global role for Quality operations working with Distributors partnered with Zoetis.

David holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Chemistry from the University of Hertfordshire. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Assurance (PTQA Dip) from the University of Leeds and is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry as a Chartered Chemist (MRSC CChem). He is British and lives in Great Britain.

Abdallah Sallam is a veterinarian graduated from Faculty of veterinary medicine – Cairo University with 11 years working experience in Animal Health  pharmaceutical industry. He has a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Faculty of veterinary medicine Cairo university. He worked as Microbiologist at National Organization for Drug Control and Research in Egypt and he is currently Regulatory Affairs Lead for Egypt and Middle East at Zoetis the world Animal Health Leader.

Noel Joseph leads the collaborative project between the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on improving the regulation of veterinary medicines in Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA). Before assuming the current role, Noel led work on a number of projects designed to support regulators in SSA as the Head of VMD’s International Office. These included a project with the World Bank Group to support the Ethiopian regulator VDFACA and organizing training for other regulators.

Prior to that, Noel was seconded to the European Commission (DG Santé) in the unit with responsibility for veterinary medicines for over two and half years. During this time Noel represented the European Commission at VICH and the scientific & technical committees of the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Before his secondment, Noel was the UK member of the EMA’s Safety Working Party (SWPv) where he was elected as its vice-Chair for two years and was its acting Chair for one of those. During this time Noel was a Senior Safety Assessor with responsibilities for the evaluation of human safety aspects of the dossier for marketing authorization as well as Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) applications. Apart from a one year secondment to the EMA, Noel worked as a safety assessor at the VMD for since mid-90s.

Noel received his BSc (Hons) degree in Applied Science from Kingston University and his MSc in Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Metabolism from the University of Loughborough and a certificate in Toxicology from the University of London. Noel is a member of the Royal Society of Biology (MRSB).

Dr. Yasser Mahmmod is a Lecturer in food animal health and epidemiology at Faculty of Health Sciences (Veterinary Sciences Program), Higher Colleges of Technology (UAE). Dr. Mahmmod is also Assistant Professor in Veterinary Infectious Diseases at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University (Egypt). Dr. Mahmmod is an enthusiastic and results-oriented veterinarian, and researcher with special passion and strong expertise in farm animals’ health, infectious diseases epidemiology, and One Health. He developed a strong national and international research profile in bovine herd health management and dairy production medicine including mastitis control, milk quality and udder health, and intramammary infections epidemiology as well as biostatistical modeling and Bayesian analysis for livestock health disorders data. In his current role at the HCT, Dr. Mahmmod coordinates teaching and research on veterinary epidemiology, Zoonotic diseases and One health, veterinary professional practice, and animal diseases and prevention.

Before joining HCT, he worked as Marie-Curie Research Fellow at CReSA-IRTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) on the association between animal health, infectious diseases, and the microbiome from 2018 to 2020. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a postdoc fellow at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) on epidemiology and diagnostics of mastitis pathogens. In 2015, he did a postdoc at the University of Minnesota (USA) on dairy production medicine. Dr. Mahmmod has a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) in cattle health and epidemiology. He has MSc in infectious diseases (bovine tick-borne diseases) from Zagazig University (Egypt) and DVM from the same university. Dr. Mahmmod is a fellow of HEA and a fellow of Blackboard Academy. Dr. Mahmmod got several recognition and scholarships such as the Marie-Sklodowska Curie fellowship in 2017, and Merit Scholarship fellowship in 2016. In addition to the award the State Encouragement Award (highest national recognition) in Agriculture Sciences from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (Egypt). He has more than 70 Publications in peer review journals and international conferences covering wide topics related to production animals’ health, infectious diseases epidemiology, and One Health.

Tony Simon grew up on a farm in West Wales before qualifying as a veterinarian from the University of Cambridge Veterinary School in 1986. He spent 5 years in mixed livestock/companion animal and specialist companion animal veterinary practices in the UK before joining Pfizer Animal Health in 1991 as a Veterinary Advisor.

During his time at Pfizer Animal Health, now Zoetis, he has worked in the UK, European regional Headquarters and US global Headquarters in a range of veterinary technical and strategic roles. He is part of Zoetis’ R&D organization based in Brussels with responsibility for European Scientific Affairs and Pharmacovigilance. He is also a member of the AnimalhealthEurope and HealthforAnimals Pharmacovigilance Working Parties and an industry delegate at the global VeDDRA committee and the VICH Pharmacovigilance Expert Group.

• Director of the Animal Development & Health Department, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment – United Arab Emirates.
• Head of the veterinary technical committee for veterinary licenses in UAE
• Head of the technical committee of Veterinary products.
• The delegate of UAE in the GCC Animal wealth committee.
• UAE Focal point for communication to the international organization for animal Health (OIE).
• UAE Focal point in Focal point in Antimicrobial resistance in the animal field (FAO- WHO).
• Member of national committee of implementation of the international health regulation IHR and Pandemic.
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement related to World Tarde Organisation.
• She was the Director of Food Safety Department in Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) in United Arab Emirates (UAE).
• She was the Director of Animal Health and Development in the same Ministry.
• Before moving to MOCCAE, Majd was working in Ministry of Health and Prevention, with over 25 years of experience in health sector
• She was a member in number of committees that aims and works to strengthen food safety in the UAE in accordance with the best international practices, that include setting policies and strategies and the harmonization of legislation, regulations and procedures related to food safety control ensuring that the food products imported to UAE and exported from it are safe and convenience for human consumption, also she was a member in the Food Safety Committee for Gulf Cooperation Council, National Food Safety Committee, Arab Task Force for Food Safety, Head of Meat Safety and its Products Team, and several other committees. She was a focal point for UAE in many notification systems related to food safety such as: International Net Work of Food Safety Authorities (INFOSAN), EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASEF) and others.
• In 2009 earned her Master Degree in Executive Master in Business Administration from University of Sharjah.
• In 2017 graduated from Leaders Inspire Programme from Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government.
• She was rewarded in 2017 as one of the most influential women leaders in her ministry.

• Javed Iqbal is a veterinarian with MSc Microbiology and PhD in Virology.  After postdoctoral fellowships at Royal Veterinary College, London and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Surrey, UK, he joined the animal health industry in 2003.

  First role in animal health industry was Regulatory Affairs Manager with Fort Dodge Animal Health.  Later he joined Novartis Animal Health in Switzerland as Pharmacovigilance Manager.  His last role with Novartis Animal Health was EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (EU QPPV).

  Since 2015 Javed has been working with Elanco Pharmacovigilance in different roles.  His current role is oversight of Elanco PV activities in APAC, LATAM, Russia/Middle East Africa.

  Javed is based in UK.

• Professional Experience:

  Head of Pharmacy and Drug Control Division / Veterinary and Animal Health Department/ Ministry of Agriculture/ Hashemite kingdom of Jordan May 2021 till now

  Head of Registration unit in the Pharmacy and Drug control division in Veterinary Department\Ministry of Agriculture in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan April 2006- until April 2021

  Head of registration department in private company (preparation of registration files of drugs according to VICH guidelines for each locally and outside registration as recommended by each country). February 2005- until March 2006

  A laboratory technician in medical labs of Hussein cancer center June 2004 – January 2005.

  International Experience:

  OIE focal point for Veterinary drugs.

  WHO focal point for AMR.

  FAO focal point for AMR.

  AOAD focal point for AMR.

  EuFmd member in GVA.

  Vice Chairman of the committee of drug and vaccine registration.

  Member of JFDA Technical committee

  Focal

Dr Mária Szabó obtained her veterinary degree at the Veterinary Science University in Budapest. After some years in Human Neuroscience Research, she worked in the veterinary field.

Before she joined the OIE, she was employed in a French Multinational Company, Ceva-Phylaxia Co Ltd, working as the lead expert on European procedures.

Previously she worked in the Hungarian public sector, as part of a regulatory body known as the Directorate of Veterinary Medicines, for nearly 15 years. During that time she was seconded to London for two years as a National Expert to the European Medicine Agency (EMEA). She acted as a secretary to the Veterinary Mutual Recognition Facilitation Group (VMRFG,), ( later the Co-ordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures, (CMDv)), to the Committee of Veterinary Medicinal Products (CVMP)-Environmental Risk Assessment Working Group (ERA-WP), and as a project manager for centralised procedures. She represented Hungary in different forums in terms of veterinary medicines.

Since 2015, Mária has been working for the Word Organisation of Animal Health (OIE), based in Paris. She was responsible for the mission of veterinary medicinal products, now she is working as scientific coordinator.

Ahmed Aufy hold Bachelor degree in Poultry Science and Master in Poultry Physiology from Ain Shams University.

Spent 4 years in research at the Animal and Poultry production research institute in Egypt

Ahmed then re-located to Europe where he got his PhD in Biochemistry (joint work, Milan University, Italy and University of life sciences and natural resources, Vienna, Austria)

Ahmed joined in Elanco in 2013 as EMEA launch and innovation leader and since 2018 he serves as Marketing manager for Poultry.

Javier Y. Marcos has a solid history of working in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), with eighteen years of experience in the development and commercialization of diagnostics tests for infectious diseases, both for human and animal health. Graduated as Doctor in Veterinary Medicine in 1997, he also holds a PhD in Microbiology & Molecular Biology from the Leon University, Spain. Recently appointed as Head of the AMR & Veterinary Products Department at the World Organization for Animal Health, he will be providing an overview of the OIE strategy on AMR and the prudent use of antimicrobials. as part of a One Health approach.

Ahmed has more than 16 years of experience in the quality field. For the past four years, Ahmed has been working for MEVAC as a Quality Assurance Manager. Ahmed has extensive knowledge of QMS ISO 9001:2015, EMS 14001:2015, OHSMS 45001:2018 as a lead auditor and GMP compliance expert. Additionally, Ahmed is a certified trainer in QMS and Biorisk management system. Ahmed obtained his M. Sc. in environmental chemistry from Ain Shams University. Plus earned his Ph.D. in inorganic and analytical chemistry from Suez Canal University, Egypt. His strong background in Quality Assurance, Regulation’s compliance, and managing large corporate teams makes him the perfect fit.

“Leonid Dudnikov was born in a family of hereditary vaccinologists and linked his whole life with the development and production of vaccines.

In 1986 he graduated from the Academy of Vet Medicine (St.Petersburg, USSR). Ph.D. degree granted in 1992 after the postgraduate course in the All-Union Research Institute for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (now ARRIAH, Vladimir, Russia) at the Lab of Applied Biotechnology. Management experience was improved at the Executive-МВА curses of the International business «Classical Business-school» from 2005 (Moscow, Russia).

Starting his working scientific career in 1987 in the ARRIAH, he continued his professional development/collaboration in such laboratories/companies as Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory (Visiting scientist – MI, USA), CEVA Sante Animale (Industrial Project Manager – Hungary, USA, Mexico), Bio-Test-Laboratory (Industrial/R&D Director – Ukraine), Shchelkovo Biofactory (Production/R&D Director – Russia) and now he is the Side Director at the Middle East Vaccine Company (MEVAC, Egypt).

Leonid lead projects in biosimilars vaccines design and development, production, technology transfer, Up-/Down- streaming, adjuvants, etc. He has strong knowledge in experimental/industrial biologic sciences techniques, MAb’s production, bioinformatics, and projects development.

The main objects of his interests are the next viruses – FMDV, Rabies, HCV (SFV), Aujesky Disease, Avian Herpes- and Retroviruses and others.

He has 4 children and is interesting in the Karate-Do, reading Si-Fi and historical books; blues-rock and rockabilly style music; numismatics and phaleristics, High-Tech, Singularity of consciousness (cognitive singularity).”

With a first degree in Biochemistry & Pharmacology and a PhD focussing on drug metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Graeme has worked in the areas of Drug Safety and Medical services for nearly the last 30 years.

Graeme has been working as Head of Global Pharmacovigilance and EU QP PV for many large (and small) Pharma, and has been CEO for the last 19 years for PharSafer.

Graeme is also a member of TOPRA; RQA and the Institute of Directors and has helped small start up Companies in their planning, growth and been involved in Company acquisitions, due diligence activities for product in-licensing and marketing and development strategies.

Graeme has been involved in many drug development programmes taking products from the bench is market in a wide range of therapeutic areas.

Graeme also has an additional role as Research & Development Director for products to be developed for global launches.

His Excellency Eng. Saif Mohammed Rashid Saeed Al
Shara Al-Samahi is the Assistant Undersecretary for the
Sustainable Communities Sector and the Acting
Assistant Undersecretary for Food Diversity Sector at the
Ministry of Climate Change and Environment.
Previously, he held the positions of the Assistant
Undersecretary for the External Audit Sector, the
Assistant Undersecretary for the Agricultural and
Animal Affairs Sector and the Assistant Undersecretary
for the Water Resources and Nature Conservation
Sector at the Ministry of Environment and Water since
2009.
His Excellency started his career as an engineer in the
Marine Biology Center – Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries – Umm Al Quwain in 1994, then moved to the
Central Agricultural Region Department – Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries – Al Dhaid and became the
Head of Animal Health Department at the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries. He also worked as the Head of
Agricultural Affairs Department, Eastern Agricultural
Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries,
Fujairah, and later as Director of Eastern Region,
Ministry of Environment and Water (formerly Ministry
of Agriculture and Fisheries), Fujairah.
His Excellency is also a member of several committees,
including the UAE’s Circular Economy Council, the
National Wellbeing Council, the National Commission
for Education, Culture and Science, the National
Biosecurity Committee, the UAE National Industrial
Development Committee – the Ministry of Economy,
and the Advisory Committee for the College of
Agriculture – UAE University, and the Board of Trustees
of the Sheikh Khalifa Center for Biotechnology and
Genetic Engineering.
Eng. Saif Mohammed Al Shara holds a bachelor’s degree
in Agricultural Sciences from the UAE University – Al Ain

Marc Henninger graduated from the Veterinary College of Nantes in France in 1994. He specialized in Food Animal disease management and defended his thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of Nantes in 1996. He finalized a Master degree in Business from the University of Rennes in 2004.

He is currently Director for Corporate Affairs at Elanco Animal Health for France and MENA GSE (Middle East, North Africa, Gulf, Saudi, Egypt and Pakistan). Elanco is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to animal health that markets veterinary drugs, feed additives and biocides to prevent and treat diseases in livestock and companion animals. Marc has 25 years of experience in Food Animal in the fields of veterinary medicine, genetic, nutrition and vaccine. He has been a speaker in several conferences in France, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco.

He represents ELANCO in several working groups of SIMV, the French association of animal health industry representing manufacturers of medicines and diagnostics for animals. Marc is also involved in OIE and Codex activities through Elanco’s membership in Health for Animals and International Meat Secretariat. He has a deep understanding of the complex guidelines and regulations related to AMR in France and EU and he follows closely guidelines published by international organizations (OIE, WHO, FAO, OEDC,…).

His two main areas of interest are antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic salmonellosis. He strongly believes that improving Animal Health is key for Human Health and Planet Health.

The first Pharmacist who joint the animal Health field since more than 10years.

Currently the acting Director of National Laboratories Department, Ministry of Climate Change and

Have held  several positions in the past  9 years : head of the veterinary technical committee for veterinary licenses in UAE ,Head of the technical committee of Veterinary products,  UAE delegate in the GCC Animal wealth committee, UAE Focal point for Animal Health and veterinary products to the international organization for animal Health (OIE), UAE Focal point in Focal point in Antimicrobial resistance in the animal field (FAO- WHO) and Member of national committee of implementation of the international health regulation IHR and Pandemic.

Currently, OIE delegate for UAE

The Main Achievements:

The Halalna initiative, where a new work method has been set up, where enforcing the human resources of all the emirates in one day to target one emirates to implement the national immunization program that aims to standardize the type and time of vaccination in all Emirates and maximize the benefit from this the program.

proposed national policies and plans, including the National Animal Health Plan, which was adopted in 2016, which works to eliminate the 4 most important animal diseases of economic priority and contribute to achieving food security

Qualifying and developing UAE National and qualifying them for the labor market.

She holds a BSC in Chemistry and a MSc and PHD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Athens, Greece. After some years in the field of science and research, she decided to move on to the pharmaceutical industry; therefore Ms. Antigoni joined Excelya as a Safety Officer in the Pharmacovigilance & Safety Department.  

She is currently engaged with all pharmacovigilance activities concerning veterinary medicinal products and most specifically the transition to the new European Veterinary Legislation.

Rick is the Technical Director for HealthforAnimals, the global industry association, and for AnimalhealthEurope, theEuropean industry association, representing manufacturers of veterinary medicinal products.

Rick has worked for the European industry association since 1997, where his main task is to bring improvements to the European regulatory environment governing veterinary medicinal products (VMPs), through regular dialogue with decision makers within the European institutions and the European medicines regulatory network.
More recently his focus has included bringing more regulatory convergence at a global level in the interests of improving access to veterinary medicines in developing regions. He is a membe)of the VICH steering committee (International Cooperation on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of VMPs). In his global role he promotes the HealthforAnimals objectives for efficient regulatory systems through regulatory convergence and regulatory best practice.

Prior to joining the industry associations, he has worked as a Product Development and Registration Manager for ectoparasiticides. He began his career in the area of clinical diagnostics and antibiotic detection methods and is author of a patent in clinical diagnostics. In 1982 he graduated from Brunel University, London, with a degree in Applied Biology, and in 1994 he obtained a diploma in Marketing from Cambridge College. He was first author of the chapter on Veterinary Medicinal Products’ in *Fundamentals of EU Regulatory Affairs’, published by the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) (2002, 2004).

He is an Honorary Life Member of TOPRA (The Organization for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs).

Asma Mahmood Bulshawareb, a veterinarian in Dubai Municipality with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from the UAE university.

Received clinical training from the university of veterinary medicine in Budapest.

Driven by passion for animal welfare, mother nature and science to become a productive member of the society by an ongoing professional development, in order to maintain the general public health and serve the community.

The most fortunate among us will be able to say: I occupied some space on earth, and I did some good. I made a difference.

Through the years within different organizations, I have learned how it is hard to bring the right people together, give them support to work as one team towards a common goal and find creative solutions for the unusual business challenges. Being a Regional Regulatory Affairs Director for EEMEA region based in Monheim, Germany, I restructured the hub and was able to manage several turnarounds the region, making sure that RA systems were updated, as well as improving the submission and approval timelines and archiving situations. In addition, I was excited to take part in developing countries closing models, putting together the Central Transfer Plan (CTP) and lead the global MAH concept development. As well, prepare the separation plans for the major 50 countries globally with colleagues across multiple regions (US, EEA, APAC, LATAM and EEMA) and time zones in a genuine, professional as well as friendly attitude. With all my combined education and experiences, I find it very suitable to a global management position in the Regulatory Affairs and R&D field.

Through the years within different organizations, I have learned how it is hard to bring the right people together, give them support to work as one team towards a common goal and find creative solutions for the unusual business challenges. Being a Regional Regulatory Affairs Director for EEMEA region based in Monheim, Germany, I restructured the hub and was able to manage several turnarounds the region, making sure that RA systems were updated, as well as improving the submission and approval timelines and archiving situations. In addition, I was excited to take part in developing countries closing models, putting together the Central Transfer Plan (CTP) and lead the global MAH concept development. As well, prepare the separation plans for the major 50 countries globally with colleagues across multiple regions (US, EEA, APAC, LATAM and EEMA) and time zones in a genuine, professional as well as friendly attitude. With all my combined education and experiences, I find it very suitable to a global management position in the Regulatory Affairs and R&D field.

Markos Tibbo is Senior Livestock Development Officer of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Based in Abu Dhabi (UAE), he is responsible for FAO technical support to GCC States and Yemen. Previously, he has been working at FAO headquarters (Rome, Italy), as staff member of the animal production and genetics group, responsible for guiding FAO member States in animal production and productivity improvement and management of animal genetic resources. Based in Cairo (Egypt), he also worked at FAO’s Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa as regional Livestock Officer and provided technical assistance to member States. Before joining FAO, he worked for two formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Centers (ICARDA and ILRI) holding various research positions. He received his Ph.D. in Animal Science (especially Genetics and Breeding) from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU, Uppsala, Sweden) and D.V.M. (a degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) from Addis Ababa University (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). He has over 28 years of experience in animal production and health (research, development, policies, and practices) in Africa, Europe, Middle East and South Asia.
Dr Tibbo has authored or co-authored over 140 scientific and technical publications, books, and chapters in books and received a number of awards. He served in various professional associations, editorial boards and as regular reviewer of articles for scientific journals.

As the world’s leading animal health company, Zoetis exists to nurture our world and humankind by advancing care for animals.  With nearly 70 years of experience innovating a leading portfolio and pipeline of medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and technologies, we stand by those caring for animals by providing solutions worldwide.

Sally has more than 20 years’ experience in Regulatory Affairs for veterinary medicines, initially with Pfizer Animal Health and now with Zoetis.  In 2014, she assumed responsibility for Regulatory Affairs in markets in in Central and Eastern Europe (EU and non-EU), the Middle East and Africa, and in 2020 she also took responsibility for Affiliate Quality in the same region.

Sally holds a BSc (Hons) Toxicology & Pharmacology from the University of London.  She also holds degrees in English Law (LLB), Modern Languages (BA) and Business Administration (MBA) and she is a Fellow of The Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (FTOPRA).  She is British and has lived in Belgium since 2010.

Professor Mohamed Abdeen is a veterinarian with more than 20 years’ experience in the animal health industry, he is a professor of Histology and cytology, faculty of veterinary medicine Cairo university and he is currently the General Manager for Zoetis in Egypt and Middle East.

Ahmed El Demerdash is the Territory Technical Consultant Saudi, Gulf region & PK at ELANCO. He has 23 years’ experience in poultry industry in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Gulf & middle east region in technical consultations, lab diagnosis, management, quality control, poultry diseases and nutrition.

Dr. Ahmed has a bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine 1999, Masters’ degree in poultry viral diseases 2003 & a PhD in evaluation of vaccination programs by ELISA monitoring 2017.

Ahmed El Shafei has an overall experience of 24 years in the industry of poultry, which he began as a Poultry diseases specialist, animal health research institute, Egypt From 1998 to 2007, and after that he has joined Elanco Animal health from the year of 2008 till this current day.

He is a graduate from Zagazig University, in Egypt 1997, and holds a PHD & Masters’ Degree in “Infectious Bronchitis disease” poultry diseases department 2002.

Carel du Marchie Sarvaas is Executive Director of HealthforAnimals, the global animal health association. HealthforAnimals represents the top 10 global animal health companies developing and manufacturing veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines, parasiticides, diagnostics, digital products, etc. Its corporate members are Boehringer Ingelheim, Ceva, Elanco, IDEXX, Merck/MSD, Phibro, Vétoquinol, Virbac, Zenoaq and Zoetis. It also represents the interests of 29 national animal health associations – in total 85% of the global animal health sector.

The animal health industry provides value to society by protecting animals, and as a consequence, humans from diseases. These products keep pets and food-producing animals healthy. The public health benefits of these products safer and more secure food supplies, more efficient production for increased food supply, improved sustainability, and prevention of the transmission of zoonotic diseases.

Carel joined HealthforAnimals in 2014 after holding the position of Director at EuropaBio, the Biotechnology Association. Prior to EuropaBio, Carel worked at international consultancies and think tanks in Brussels and Washington DC, advising clients active in the food, agriculture, chemicals, nanotech and biotech sectors. He is Dutch national, married, has four children and holds degrees from the University of Leiden and the Johns Hopkins University.