Claude de Ville de Goyet graduated from the University of Louvain (Belgium) in 1965. He has also a bachelor's in Operational Research from the University of South Africa. Following six years of public health work in Africa and a one-year World Health Organization fellowship on disaster epidemiology (including one month in the Natural Disaster Research Center and six months at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control), de Ville de Goyet became the first director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the University of Louvain.

From 1977 to 2002, he was the director of the Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization, regional office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. Since 1976, he has travelled frequently to Haiti.

Since his retirement from WHO, de Ville de Goyet has conducted independent evaluations after most major disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the Bam and Kashmir earthquakes. During this period, he worked for a large number of organizations and is familiar with many in the humanitarian community. He is the author of numerous articles and publications.

de Ville is well informed on the situation in Haiti, where he was relief coordinator after the 2004 Hurricane in Gonaives and WHO Representative and Special Advisor during the cholera outbreak in early 2011. He is preparing a publication on lessons (to be) learned from the early response to the January 12 earthquake.

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Related Resources from Claude de Ville de Goyet

The Role of Needs Assessment in the Tsunami Response
Tsunami Evaluation Coalition, July 2006