Faouzi M Kechrid
President World Veterinary Association
President African and Euro-Arab Veterinary Associations
Tunisia
Biography
Dr. Faouzi Kechrid has more than thirty seven years experience in the fields of Veterinary Medicine, Animal and Public Health, Animal Welfare ,Livestock , Food security ,Hygiene and Safety.
Research Interest
As OIE certified Expert for the PVS missions in African countries, he was involved in many training seminars for animal welfare in Ethiopia, Mali, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Irak , Tanzania, Niger, Angola, Cameroon and took part to different initiatives with WHO for street dogs and cats as well with international organizations for protection of animals
Biography
I. Andonovic, Professor of Broadband Networks, graduated with a BSc (Hons.) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde and received a PhD in conjunction with neighbouring Glasgow University. He is currently a member of the Centre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications Systems (CIDCOM) at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Strathclyde University and Vice Dean for Knowledge Exchange for the Faculty of Engineering. He joined Strathclyde in 1985 following several years at Barr and Stroud (Pilkington Optronics) where he was responsible for the design, manufacture and test of optical guided wave devices. He has held a two year Royal Society Industrial Fellowship, in collaboration with British Telecommunications (BT) Labs during which he investigated novel approaches to broadband networking. Professor Andonovic’s research interests centre on the development of broadband networks, access and home networking and wireless sensor systems following the Internet of Everything (IoE) principles. He has edited two books and authored/co-authored six chapters in books and over 400 journal and conference papers and funding in excess of £15M. He has held a BT Short Term Fellowship, Visiting Scientist status at the Communications Research Laboratories of Japan, Visiting Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and Princeton University, USA. He was co-founder, Director and Chief Technology Officer of Kamelian Ltd., a high growth technology start-up focussing on the design and manufacture of advanced semi-conductor devices. He was also a member of flagship Scottish Enterprise (government agency for economic growth) establishment team of the Intermediary Technology Institutes (ITIs), aimed at bridging the gap between basic research and company growth. He held the ITI Techmedia Sponsored Chair in Broadband Networks facilitating the interaction between fundamental research in communications technologies and pre-competitive development of technologies that formed the input to commercialisation activities in Scotland. Recently he was a co-founding member, Director and CTO of Silent Herdsman Ltd a technology company providing a range of cloud based animal health services, the foundation data being acquired through a highly scalable wireless distributed sensor platform.
Research Interest
Animal's welfare, metrics in diet
Biography
Dragan Å efer has completed his PhD in June 2002, at the age of 39, at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Nutrition and Botany of Belgrade University. Since February 2007 he became head of this Department and since December 2014 he has been engaged as a full professor. He published more than 150 papers in national and international journals (more than 10 in reputed journals) and two books ("General nutrition" and "Feed safety for animals") intended for the students at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
Research Interest
Veterinary Medicine,Nutrition,Botany,Feed safety and animal health.
