Carlos Gonçalo das Neves is the Director of Research and Internationalization at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute in Oslo, President of the Wildlife Disease Association and chair of the Wildlife Population Health specialty of the European College of Zoological Medicine. He is a graduated in Veterinary Medicine and holds a PhD in wildlife virology, field in which he has been working for the last 15 years. We works mostly today with topics related to ONE HEALTH and emerging threats. He holds a joint position at the Faculty of health Sciences at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Das Neves has served as a national expert in animal welfare and health for the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment, and served as Honorary Consul of Portugal in Norway between 2010 and 2017.