Leadership

GALVmed is governed by a Board of Experts. Members’ experience includes a wide range of public bodies, private institutions including pharmaceutical companies, and non-governmental organisations.

Patron: Mr. Midge Ure

Multi-award winning musician Midge Ure has made a historic contribution to international development aid. In 1984, 36 artists gathered under Mr Ure's production as the world's most famous one-off group, Band Aid. Band Aid recorded 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' a song that Ure wrote with Bob Geldof as the industry's contribution to Ethiopian famine relief. In the first week, 600,000 copies of the song were sold in the UK alone, 800,000 more were bought in the second week, and more than three million worldwide. This led to Live Aid, the summer 1985 global concert. Within months, 8 million GBP had been raised for people who were starving. Geldof said that without Ure's initial enthusiasm for the idea, neither Band Aid nor Live Aid could have happened. GALVmed is delighted that Midge Ure is its Patron.

Partners

GALVmed has developed partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), government organisations and international agencies and foundations. These partnerships are vital to GALVmed’s existence and the success of its mission. GALVmed strives to ensure that its decisions are driven by regular dialogue with community stakeholders.

Founder Members

Members

Observers

A representative Board of Observers drawn from government and development, corporate and academic organisations and interests also guides GALVmed’s work.

  • African Union/Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources - AU/IBAR (A. Elsawalhy)
  • UK Department for International Development-DFID
  • European Union (EU)
  • Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations - FAO (J. Otte) 
  • World Organisation for animal health - OIE (G.Bruckner/k. Hamilton)
  • Pfizer (D.Martz)
  • Merial (M.May)
  • InterVet (P.Van Aarle)
  • ILRI (P. Toye)
  • FARM-Africa (C. Peacock)
  • IFAH (B. Freischem)
  • BMGF (G. BeVier) 

Chairman

Dr Mike Witty

Board Members

  • Amanda Caine - Chair, Finance & Audit Sub-Committee
  • Prof Julie Fitzpatrick - Chair, Technical Sub-Committee
  • Dr Peter Jeffries
  • Dr Pierre-Marie Borne
  • Dr Ashok Pande
  • Dr Karim Tounkara
  • Dr Seema Wahab
  • Dr Berhe Gebreegziabher