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b'In this IIEA armchair discussion,\\xa0Professor Peter Piot, Special Advisor on COVID-19 to the President of the European Commission,\\xa0focuses on lessons\\xa0of the COVID-19 pandemic at EU-level\\xa0from a health policy perspective\\xa0to evaluate the role of research and innovation (R&I) during the health crisis. Professor Piot discusses the value of investment in R&I projects\\xa0and initiatives\\xa0to address diagnostics, treatment and vaccines, epidemiology, preparedness and response to future outbreaks. In his role as Special Advisor to President Ursula von der Leyen, he offers insights on the EU\\u2019s role in supporting global efforts to detect, prepare and respond to future health crises.\\xa0\\n\\nAbout the Speaker:\\xa0\\n\\nProfessor Baron Peter Piot MD PhD KCMG is the Handa Professor of Global Health and former Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is currently\\xa0Special Advisor on COVID-19 to the President of the European Commission.\\xa0Previously, Peter Piot\\xa0was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations (1995-2008).\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\nA clinician and microbiologist by training, he co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976, and subsequently led pioneering research on HIV/AIDS, women\\u2019s health and infectious diseases in Africa. He has held academic positions at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp; the University of Nairobi; the University of Washington, Seattle; Imperial College London, and the College de France, Paris, and was a Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.\\xa0He was formerly Vice-Chair of the Global Health Innovation Technology Fund, Tokyo, and member of the Board of the Novartis Foundation, Basel.'