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BVA Officers
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
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.
BVA Senior Vice President
Rob Williams
Dr Rob Williams MVB MBA CMgr FCMI MCIPD FRCVS is BVA President 2025/26. 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 more than five years and recently contributed to the VetLife Neurodiversity Resource
BVA Junior Vice President
Fieke Molenaar
Dr Fieke Molenaar MSc(WAH) PgC(SAD&OS) DZooMed (mammalian) MRCVS is a University of Ghent and Royal Veterinary College graduate, and has worked across small animal, mixed, wildlife and zoo practice in a career spanning more than 25 years.
She is an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine and past president of the British Veterinary Zoological Society. Fieke currently works as a veterinary dentist with Hampden Veterinary Hospital in Aylesbury, with a clinical focus on dentistry and pain management in all non-domestic species.
Outside of practice, she is a trustee of the Southern Thailand Elephant Foundation and the ZEBRA Foundation.