Honorary Membership of the SAVA Bestowed on Dr Herbert Schneider News / Councillor Curriculum Vitae Posted by JimEdwards on Oct 16, 2005 - 12:52 PM Source: VETNews : South African Veterinary Association : September 2005 In the course of national and international veterinary history there are individuals who stand out above their peers. Dr Schneider is such a colleague and for numerous reasons, that are evident from his curriculum vitae, the Executive Committee decided to bestow this honour on him. To lend the appropriate lustre to the occasion the award was made during the closing function of the recent World Veterinary Congress in Minneapolis USA, an organization of which he is Past President. Curriculum vitae: Dr. Herbert Schneider Herbert Schneider was born in 1942 in Wiesbaden/Germany, emigrated with his parents to South West Africa (today Namibia) in 1950 and grew up on a farm in the Karibib district of Namibia. Since 1981 has been farming part-time on the family farm (Sanga cattle. Damara sheep and wildlife). He is married to Ilme and has 4 grown-up children. His mother tongue is German and he is fluent in English and Afrikaans with a working knowledge of French. He studied veterinary medicine at the University of Pretoria (Onderstepoort), obtaining the degree BVSc degree in 1965. Post-graduate qualifications are: DVSM (Dip. State Vet. Med) University of Edinburgh (Scotland) 1973; Dr.med.vet, University of Giessen (Germany) 1977; and Specialist veterinarian in Tropical Veterinary Medicine. State of Hessen (Germany) 1981 (FTA-TVM). He has been a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS), London (United Kingdom) since 1973. He joined the Division of Veterinary Services (SWA Administration) of Namibia in 1965 and served as State Veterinarian in Omaruru, Ondangua, Kamanjab-Opuwo and Windhoek In 1978 he became the Director of Veterinary Services (the first time a Namibian held this post as all previous Directors were seconded from South Africa) and in 1984 Principal Secretary for Agriculture, Nature Conservation, Veterinary Services and Sea Fisheries. In 1990 he established a veterinary consultancy in Windhoek and again joined the Directorate of Veterinary, Services of Namibia as Principal Food Hygiene veterinarian from 1993 to mid 1998. Since then he has been the Principal Consultant of AGRIVET International Consultants, which is a consultancy in the field of veterinary medicine, with special expertise in the field of tropical animal health, veterinary epidemiology, veterinary legislation, food hygiene & safety and veterinary public health. In September 2002 he was elected President of the World Veterinary Association (WVA) for three years and during July 2005 he became Immediate Past President and Member of the Executive Committee of the WVA until 2008. Recent activities include being chairman of the OIE ad hoc Group on the role of Private Veterinarians and Para-professionals in the provision of Animal Health Services (since 2003); being member of the Steering Committee for the OIE Global Conference on Animal Welfare (Jun 2003 - February 2004): participation in the FAO/OIE/WHO Conference on the Non-human Use of Antimicrobials in Oslo. Norway (mid-March 2004); attendance of the OIE International Conference on the Control of Animal Infectious Diseases by Vaccination in Buenos Aires, Argentina (mid-April 2004) elected chairman of the OIE ad hoc Group for Antimicrobial Resistance since January 2005 and being member of the FAO Expert Consultation on Capacity Building in Veterinary Public Health. Rome, Italy, June 2005. He has served in an executive capacity on numerous veterinary and agricultural commissions and committees in the Southern African region, inter alia as a member of the SWA/Namibia Meat Board and as a director of SWAVLE1S/Meatco. He was a member of the Livestock Advisory Council of South Africa from 1985 – 1990) and member (since 1978) and leader (since 1982) of the Namibian delegation to SARCCUS (Southern African Regional Commission for the Conservation and Utilisation of the Soil - member countries: Botswana, Lesotho. Malawi, Mozambique. Namibia. South Africa. Swaziland) from 1978- 1990. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and has given papers at various international veterinary congresses, including the World Veterinary Congresses at Perth (1983); Montreal (1987) and Yokohama (1995). He is the author of the handbook "Animal Health and Veterinary Medicine in Namibia" (1994). This article is from World Veterinary Association   http://www.worldvet.org/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.worldvet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2414