Guy Freeland

Guy Freeland, BVMS (Glasgow ’65), MSc (Edinburgh University, Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine ’78), MRCVS has had a long and distinguished career in international veterinary medicine.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, his Overseas Development Administration (ODA) assignments took him to Swaziland, Sarawak, and Bangladesh, followed by a World Bank assignment in Nigeria. From 1983 to 1999, Dr. Freeland was the Senior Animal Health and Production Adviser to the British Government’s ODA, (now the Department for International Development, DFID). His responsibilities included livestock project appraisal, monitoring, supervision, and review in some 45 countries in Africa; West, South, and South-east Asia; and Pacific regions. He also had oversight of ODA/DFID’s Animal Health and Livestock Production Research Programmes, and provided advice on assistance to International Research Institutions.

Since retiring from the civil service in 1999, his free-lance consulting has taken him to Botswana, Vietnam, Lao PDR, and Nepal, and has also included work in the United Kingdom.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of VETAID, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Worthing Animal Clinic.