The Society is pleased to announce the keynote speaker for the 2013 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. along with plenary speakers.
Peter Piot, PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a professor of global health, will deliver the opening address at the 62nd Annual Meeting (Nov. 13 - 17).
Piot was the founding executive director of UNAIDS and under secretary-general of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008, and was an associate director of the Global Programme on AIDS of WHO. Piot has a medical degree from the University of Ghent (1974), and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Antwerp (1980). He is credited with co-discovering the Ebola virus while working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1976. Previously, Piot was a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and was the 2009/2010 "knowledge against poverty" chair at the College de France 
in Paris. Read his full bio here.
In addition, Nick Day, FMedSci, FRCP, director of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, will deliver the Commemorative Fund Lecture at the Annual Meeting.
Frank O. Richards, MD; director, River Blindness Program, Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program, Schistosomiasis Control Program, and Malaria Control Program of The Carter Center, has 
accepted the invitation to deliver the Soper Lecture.