Peter Piot
Peter Baron Piot (Keerbergen February 17, 1949) is a Belgian doctor. He is a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and was Director of UNAIDS until the end of 2008. Afterwards, he took a position as a professor at Imperial College London.
In 1974, Piot graduated as a doctor at Ghent University, where he became a co-explorer of the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976. He flew personally to the village at the Ebola River, and was personally responsible for constricting the first epidemic. In 1980, he obtained a doctorate in Microbiology at the University of Antwerp, after which he went to work at the Institute of Tropical Medicine. He is currently director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
From 1991 to 1994, Piot was chairman of the International AIDS Society. From 1992 to 1994, he worked as associate director for the AIDS programs of the World Health Organization. On 12 December 1994 he was appointed Director of UNAIDS and also Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. He exercised both functions until the end of 2008.
In 1995 he was raised by King Albert II in the nobility and received the title of Baron. In 2005 he finished at number 26 in the Flemish version of The Greatest Belgian. On Monday 17 December 2007, he became known as the new chairman of the King Baudouin Foundation.
In 2012, he published the autobiographical No Time To Lose: A life in pursuit of deadly viruses, written in collaboration with Ruth Marshall.
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