Jorge Manuel Pinto Ferreira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Food Safety Officer July 2021 – Present Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy • Co-leader of the implementation of the Objective 1 of FAO’s AMR Action Plan, dedicated to stakeholders awareness and engagement • Manager of consultants performing AMR and AMU situational analysis in Egypt, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Mozambique and Rwanda • Responsible, at the Head Quarters level, for the coordination of the implementation of the Codex Alimentarius AMR Code of Practice in six countries: Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan Deputy Head of the AMR and Veterinary Products Department June 2020 – July 2021 Chargé de Mission October 2017- May 2020 World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), Paris, France • Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) broad tasks, for example related with the collaboration with other international organizations (WHO, FAO, Codex), making the interaction between science and policy, also regarding international research and field projects (eg. on substandard and falsified veterinary products) • Project management and team supervision including of the team collecting Antimicrobial Use (AMU) data Consultant October 2017- June 2018 IBF/European Commission, Brussels, Belgium • AMR Senior Expert of the project “EU and South America, working together on AMR”. The purpose of this project was to internationally promote EU policies on AMR, as part of the wider EU approach on the matter. Countries enrolled: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Consultant October 2012-October 2017 SAFOSO, AG, Bern, Switzerland • AMR work included, among others, the co-leadership of the dissemination and training work package of the EFFORT (Ecology from Farm to Fork Of microbial drug Resistance and Transmission) project (www.effortagainst-amr.eu) • Invited as WHO adviser to the 7th AGISAR meeting (October 2016, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA), where the Tricycle project was presented and discussed • International Lead Expert of the capacity building project “Establishment of a risk based food safety control system in the dairy value chain in Ukraine”, dealing with the component dedicated to the private industry (producers and processors), and their laboratories • Co-leadership of technical and dissemination and training work packages of the EU FP7 projects ASFORCE (asforce.org/) and RISKSUR (www.fp7-risksur.eu/), working with other international organizations like FAO • Advising roles of internships and residencies of the European College of Veterinary Public Health Reviewer 2012-present PloS One, Epidemiology & Infection, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Preventive Vet Medicine Research assistant August 2007-May 2011 North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC, USA • Literature review, project design, field and laboratory research, research management and administration, public presentations, scientific manuscripts writing 3 Jorge Pinto Ferreira Veterinarian (food animals) 2005-2007 Serviços Veterinarios Associados (S.V.A.), Fradelos, V. N. Famalicão, Portugal • Worked on a team of 6 veterinarians providing herd health management assistance to livestock farms • Developed and administered milk analysis laboratory • Partnered with a pharmaceutical company testing a new drug Veterinarian (food animals) 2001-2005 Medicina de Producao Leiteira Veterinaria, Lda (M.P.L. Vet), Tocha, Portugal • Worked on a team of 5 veterinarians providing global assistance to livestock farms