Dr Etienne Bonbon

Senior Veterinary Advisor, EMC-AH / Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

Dr Etienne Bonbon is senior veterinary advisor to the FAO, at the Emergency Management Centre for animal health. He received his Veterinary Medicine diploma in 1987 and master’s degree in human and animal epidemiology in 1991. Primarily a private practitioner in rural areas, he's been a Veterinary Public Health Inspector in the French Ministry of Agriculture since 1991.

Dr Bonbon began his career as Deputy Director of Veterinary Services in continental France and in Martinica. He then took the Head of the Export Unit at the General Directorate for Food in Paris, before opening the positions of Regional Veterinary Attaché for the Near and Middle East in Beirut and then for Northern Asia in Beijing.

Back from Asia, he was a Seconded Expert to the European Commission in Directorate General for Health and Consumers in Brussels, before joining the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in Paris as Head of the Communication Unit and Advisor to the Director General.

Before arriving at the FAO in 2017, he was Seconded to the European External Action Service at the Delegation of the European Union to the OECD, UNESCO and OIE in Paris.

He has been President of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission since 2015, after having been Vice-President between 2009 and 2015.