Speaker bio page for Patrick Bastiaensen

Bio

Dr Patrick X. Bastiaensen was born in Kinshasa, Congo (1965). A Belgian national, he graduated in 1991 with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree (DVM) from the University of Ghent, in Belgium. After a short stint working as a research assistant in tropical helminthology at the University from which he graduated, he left for the southern hemisphere, working on long term contracts for a variety of national, regional, and international organisations, amongst which the Belgian, French and German Development Cooperation, the African Development Bank, the European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. He was consecutively based in Suriname, Togo, São Tomé and Principe, Mali, Botswana and now Kenya, and gradually moved away from tropical parasitology to become an all-round animal epidemiologist, confirmed by the corresponding Certificate in animal epidemiology, obtained in 2006 from the Alfort School of Veterinary Medicine in Paris. In 2016, he concluded a Masters of Science degree (M.Sc) in animal / human / ecosystem health at the University of Pretoria, in South Africa. He has worked for the OIE since 2007 when he joined the newly established Gaborone office in Botswana, after a successful assignment working for the final program towards eradication of rinderpest, the PACE program, coordinated by the African Union. Over time he has worked in more than 30 countries on all continents. He is the principal author of 15 peer-reviewed scientific articles and co-authored another 10, as well as co-edited several books, field manuals and conference proceedings. He is a peer-reviewer for several scientific journals, mainly in the field of preventive medicine.