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BVA Officers
Electoral vacancy now available
We're currently looking for one new member of Electoral College for a three-year term. Find out more and apply by midday, 27 October.
BVA is led by our Officer team - BVA President, Senior Vice President and Junior Vice President - veterinary surgeons who serve for 3 years, with one year in each post.
The incoming President and Junior Vice President are voted in at our Annual General Meeting at BVA Members' Day in September, having been nominated by the BVA Electoral College and approved by BVA Council.
BVA President
Rob Williams
Dr Rob Williams MVB MBA CMgr FCMI MCIPD MRCVS has been elected as the new BVA Junior Vice President. An experienced small animal vet having worked as a GP vet, referral surgeon, and clinical director of a large hospital practice. Dr Williams established and developed species-focused graduate programmes at VetPartners in 2016. Rob is also a qualified HR professional and works in a role focused on colleague engagement and career development. He had been a BVA volunteer for the past five years and recently contributed to the VetLife Neurodiversity Resource
BVA Senior Vice President
Elizabeth Mullineaux
Liz is a 1988 ‘Dick vet’ graduate with a varied career in small and large animal first opinion practice.
For many years she was a co-owner of a small animal Veterinary Hospital in Somerset. Alongside this role, she successfully completed a Clinical Doctorate which ultimately led to RCVS Specialist status in Wildlife Medicine (Mammalian). She now works in a variety of British wildlife related roles, including as an advisor to a large wildlife rescue charity and in academic teaching. She also locums for a small animal emergency service.
Liz is a Past President of the British Veterinary Zoological Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
BVA Junior Vice President
Gwen Rees
Farm vet and academic Dr Gwenllian Mair Rees BVSc (Hons) PhD AFHEA FRSM FRCVS has been elected to the post of Junior Vice President. BVA’s Welsh Branch President for 2023-2025, Gwen is well known among the Welsh farming and veterinary community as the project lead for Arwain DGC’s Veterinary Prescribing Champions Network, a Welsh Government-funded national antimicrobial stewardship programme, for which she was recognised with an RCVS Fellowship earlier this year. Dr Rees is one of the founding academics at Wales’ first School of Veterinary Science, at Aberystwyth University, where she now works as a lecturer. Gwen is also the Veterinary Development Lead at Welsh independent business development company Mentera, a trustee of the Animal Welfare Foundation, and sits on the Welsh Government’s Bovine Tuberculosis Technical Advisory and AMR in Animal Health Delivery groups.
