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Mr. Peter Jinman OBE
Peter Jinman studied veterinary science at the Royal Veterinary College, graduating in 1974 and went to join a mixed practice in Worcestershire. Few who know Peter will be surprised to learn that within a year he was Secretary of the BVA’s Cotswold Division when he undoubtedly first developed his interest in veterinary politics. After some two and a half years he moved to Herefordshire to the practice of his future father-in-law and is now a senior partner in a four person, mixed veterinary practice with surgeries in Hereford and Ewyas Harold.
Peter has a wide range of professional accreditations and is a Local Veterinary Inspector (LVI) and Official Veterinary Surgeon (OVS) with some twenty years experience, although not currently under contract. A named veterinary surgeon for ADAS under the Scientific Procedures Act and a Riding Establishment Act Inspector, he is also a member of the Measurement Panel for Horses and the Chief Veterinary Surgeon on the panel for the examination of horses for purchasers at Brightwell Auctioneers sales, including the Festival of the Horse.
Peter became President of the BVA in 2002, uniquely combining this role with that of acting Chief Executive. During his exceptional year in office he oversaw the creation and implementation of a governance structure, taking his place as a Director on the newly constituted BVA Board.
A member of numerous BVA divisions covering both companion and farm animals as well as territorial divisions – he represented both the Midlands Counties and Wyvern Divisions on BVA Council - Peter is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Veterinary Association for Arbitration and Jurisprudence.
Peter has had extensive committee experience on behalf of BVA, including two periods on the Veterinary Policy Group and membership of the Zoonoses Group. As a persistent champion of the need for the profession to discuss the ethics of activities that it found itself being asked by others to write codes of practice for, he was successful in persuading BVA Council to set up an Ethics Committee, on which he sat under the Chairmanship of Lord Soulsby. He is now Chairman of the newly constituted and expanded Ethics and Welfare Group, a standing committee of the BVA.
Peter is also however active within the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), having been elected as a Council member in 2005. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee and the Advisory Committee and Chairman of the Certification Sub-Committee.
Appointed in May 2000 to serve on the Government’s Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), Peter was appointed Deputy Chairman in 2005 and reappointed for a further three-year term in 2006. Through his membership of SEAC he also sits on various sub-groups and ad hoc groups including those covering sheep, the 30-months scheme risk assessment and BARBs and was a member of the Independent Advisory Group appointed by the Food Standards Agency to advise and oversee the end of the OTMS scheme (the Wall Committee) as well as the FSA Steering Group to oversee the independent enquiry into failure to comply with the OTMS (24-30 month) testing.
Having been invited to join a core stakeholder group to develop a TB strategy, its publication in 2006 lead to him being appointed Chair of the TB Advisory Group for England. Peter also serves on the England Implementation Board (for the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy, having previously sat on the Steering Group), is a member of the European Food Standards Agency Working Group on Animal Cloning and a member of the Department of Health’s Dental Risk Assessment Group.
Outside the veterinary field, Peter has served as a school governor and as Chairman of the Ewyas Harold Parish Council and Commons Committee. He has extensive media experience, sat as a member of the BBC Rural Affairs Advisory Committee from 2003-2006 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, an elected member of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Farmer’s Club and the Kennel Club as well as being a member of both the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the Consumer Association.
Peter was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June 2004 for services to the Veterinary Profession and in presenting him with the BVA’s Chiron Award his peers are delighted to recognise a remarkable man’s achievements