Professor Peter Chiodini graduated from King’s College London, UK with first class honours in zoology and gained his PhD in parasitology at the Wellcome Research Laboratories. He then studied medicine in London before undergoing specialist training in communicable diseases in Birmingham. He is Director of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Malaria Reference Laboratory, and the Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory, at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and Scheme Organiser for the UK National External Quality Assessment Schemes for Parasitology. He is a member of the UKHSA Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention in Travellers, and advises the National Blood Service on the prevention of transfusion-transmitted parasitic infections. He is an ESCMID Fellow and was Dean of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2009 to 2012. He is also a clinician, with special interests in malaria and echinococcosis. His research interests include new diagnostic methods for parasitic infections; malaria; Chagas disease; and echinococcosis. In 2018, he was awarded an OBE for services to parasitology and malaria.