Peter Piot

Peter Piot is Professor and Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College London, UK. Piot is a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and former founding Executive Director of UNAIDS. In 1976, Piot co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire. From 1991 to 1994, Piot was president of the International AIDS Society. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Piot earned a M.D. from the University of Ghent and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has published over 500 scientific papers and 16 books.