• 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.

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.

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.

 

“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).”

 

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