Prof. Mike Tildesley is a Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling at the University of Warwick. He has an interest in the predictive power of models in the early stages of emerging disease outbreaks and in communicating modelling results to policy advisors. He has extensive experience of modelling livestock disease systems, including Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).  Prof. Tildesley has advised the UK Government’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations about strategies for control of livestock diseases including FMD and HPAI. From March 2020 to March 2022, He was a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling Operational group (SPI-M-O), and worked extensively on COVID-19, providing policy advice to the UK government.