Two decades at the intersection of veterinary science, economics and policy.

Dr Bouda Vosough Ahmadi is a veterinarian and agricultural economist with over 20 years of global leadership experience in livestock development, animal health and agrifood policy. He currently serves as Coordinator of the Global GF-TADs Secretariat (FAO–WOAH), guiding global and regional strategies on transboundary animal diseases — ASF, FMD, PPR, HPAI — and One Health.

He holds a D.V.M. from Islamic Azad University (Iran, 1998), an MSc (2003) and a PhD (2007) from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, focused on agricultural economics and animal health policy. His research and advisory work has quantified the costs, benefits and distributional effects of interventions for major transboundary animal diseases including foot-and- mouth disease, bovine tuberculosis, PPR and Rift Valley fever.

Over two decades he has directed multi-partner programmes and led intergovernmental coordination at FAO, the European Commission (JRC) and Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), with field and advisory work across Sub- Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the United Kingdom — engaging FAO, WOAH, APHA, Defra, the World Bank, IFAD, CGIAR / ILRI and multiple national governments.

He is author or editor of three CABI books and 38+ peer-reviewed publications, and has authored policy reports for FAO, the World Bank, the European Commission, WOAH, UK DEFRA and the Scottish Government. Based in London, he holds UK and Iranian nationality.